The two previous trips were accompanied by others, but this time the boy in a short shirt was walking alone. The journey was naturally much more monotonous, but the thin yellow horse beneath him seemed to understand the boredom of walking alone, and would always nuzzle towards the boy during breaks, making Lin Manliu feel that there was still some hilarity on the journey.
During the day, the horse galloped in the mountains and forests. When the yellow horse showed a little fatigue, he stopped it and Lin Manliu began to practice the sword moves he had learned. After nightfall, he found a secluded place and settled the yellow horse. The young man closed his eyes and rested aside. The days of traveling continued like this.
Every day is just about rushing, practicing swordplay, and resting... three things are repeated constantly. Since there are no other people around, Lin Manliu will not go near some villages or towns to buy items unless he has to, let alone enter them to rest. .
The time has come to May 18th. It seems that the rainy season is not coming soon. There has been no sign of rain in the past few days.
The orioles flew from nowhere in the forest and stopped to rest on the trees in twos and threes, hooting softly at their companions. Suddenly, under the tree behind them, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves, and the orioles hurriedly leaped forward. In the air, I moved away from the tree trunk where I had just rested, trying to avoid the uninvited guests who suddenly appeared under the tree. After hovering in the air, the sound of birdsong gradually became louder, as if to remind my companions of something strange happening below.
A figure on horseback flew out from under the tree. A young man in a short shirt was holding the reins tightly and driving a thin yellow horse. He came out from the forest. The man and the horse looked a little dirty. Covered with leaves and dust, it was Lin Manliu and his little yellow horse who were traveling alone.
Following the mountain road back, Lin Manliu had been walking for five full days. The young man saw that he was almost reaching the boundary of Chengdu. He was determined that as long as he drove faster, he would be able to enter Chengdu before sunset. The young man looked through the gap in the dense forest at the foot of the rolling mountains, where there was what looked like a square city.
As the boy moved forward, he began to see the appearance of some villages. Perhaps because it was still morning, smoke was already rising from several houses in the distant villages. The boy in a short shirt who had been sleeping in the open air for the past few days had been Because we didn't find a place to stay, we tried our best to find some wild fruits in the mountains or go fishing in the water. The dry food in the bag was not touched much.
Seeing the smoke rising in the distance, Lin Manliu's stomach finally began to growl unsatisfactorily. He awkwardly began to rub his belly, then reined in his horse and stopped.
"Xiao Huang...have you been a little hungry these days? How about we eat something good? The fruits from the past few days were not ripe enough, so it was too hard to eat..." Lin Manliu stroked He said while stroking the neck of the thin yellow horse.
Xiao Huang snorted, then opened the horse's mouth and clashed its teeth a few times, and then began to shake his horse's head.
"Xiao Huang, you are so kind!" The young man didn't know what the horse meant. No matter what the yellow horse's reaction was, Lin Manliu decided not to treat himself badly anymore. He immediately got off the horse and took off the baggage on the horse's back. He took out a piece of pancake and broke it into pieces. He took the two halves, put the larger piece back, took the smaller piece in his hands and began to tear it into small pieces and put it in his mouth.
"I haven't eaten pasta for several days. Xiao Huang, you should try it too." After Lin Manliu ate a few pieces, he threw a piece of pancake crumbs to Xiao Huang beside him. The thin yellow horse lowered his head and bit the pancake at his feet. He put it in his mouth and began to chew it carefully. Then Lin Manliu ate some and threw some to Huang Ma beside him. The two of them ate half of the pancake together.
It didn't take long for the half piece of pancake to be finished. Lin Manliu ate all the crumbs in his hands and wiped them clean. When he got up, he didn't forget to wipe them on his short shirt, and then began to use his hands with satisfaction. Touching his belly, a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
"Let's go, Xiao Huang! Keep on going. As long as we can get to Fengcheng today, we can go find General Li Yanhe," Lin Manliu said with a smile. After saying that, he got on his horse and prepared to continue on his way.
The yellow horse neighed and raised its head forward, as if to tell the young man on the horse that it was ready, and then they started their journey again.
The sun in the sky traveled east to west again, and gradually began to hang high in the sky. Looking at the position of the sun, it should be noon in an hour or two. The young man also rode on horseback to the village where he could only see the smoke from the cooking pots. Here Ye Dang I heard someone passing by it on my way, and it seemed to be called Lotus Bay.
When I came here, I saw clusters of lotus leaves in the fields, and everything I saw was a touch of green. Today, as I walked along the country road, there were already a little bit of pink among the endless lotus leaves, one after another. The buds hid under the lotus leaves. I am sure that when I return home in the future, I will see the fields full of lotus flowers.
Because they passed the village, some pedestrians gradually began to appear on the road. The boy in short shirt stopped galloping and started walking with his horse. After passing through Hehua Bay, he got on the horse again and started on the road again.
Lin Manliu tightened his grip on the reins, and Xiao Huang followed the young man. From time to time, there would be women picking lotus leaves by the fields. Seeing the young man holding a sword and leading a horse, he couldn't help but start to bow to Lin Manliu. After bowing, the young man in a short shirt hurriedly returned the gift to the woman, for fear of receiving such a great gift.
"Hey, that brat in front of you, you learned how to look like a hero from that family. You got some swords and brought them with you. You really think you are a knight-errant with swords in the world." Suddenly there was a voice with a bit of aura. The sarcastic middle-aged man's voice came from behind.
Lin Manliu stopped for a moment, then turned and looked at the field behind him.
It was a middle-aged man whose upper body was naked. He was fanning himself with a yellow lotus leaf. When he saw the young man turning to look at him, his eyes began to widen, and he actually stared at Lin Manliu.
"Why, you're not convinced. If you're not convinced, just argue with grandpa and me. If you lose, you brat, how about you lose your utensils and horses to me, our little hero?" The rogue's voice continued from came from the mouth of the middle-aged man.
"I'm really sorry. I still have to go on my way and don't have time to stop again. I hope you can forgive me, uncle." Lin Manliu said with cupped hands, then turned around and prepared to leave.
"Hey! You're shameless, right?" The middle-aged man's voice started to sound a little angry. Seeing that Lin Manliu didn't want to talk to him, the man picked up a stone beside him and threw it at the boy in a short shirt.
Lin Manliu, who noticed the man's movements, immediately took out the Shanye Xing from his waist, turned slightly and knocked the stone to the ground.
Pedestrians on the road suddenly saw weapons unsheathed, and some people shouted in panic, which caused everyone around to disperse. Some people quickly jumped into the field, some people hurriedly squatted down with their heads in their hands, and some people ran forward quickly. Go, looking back from time to time to look at the young man in a short shirt holding the horse to a halt.
The blade of Shan Yexing's sword shone a little under the sunlight, and the bright light pierced the eyes of the middle-aged man. He began to feel a little frightened, and the hand that had just thrown the stone began to tremble uncontrollably.
"My hero...I'm sorry, my hero, I didn't mean to..." The man saw that the young man had a real weapon in his hand and said hurriedly.
But Lin Manliu's thoughts were completely lost in the man's words. He was a little annoyed at his behavior just now. He could have stopped the stone with his bare hands, but now he pulled out the mountain to block it, causing uneasiness among the passers-by around him. , the boy in a short shirt hurriedly sheathed his sword.
He began to apologize to the passers-by around him, "Everyone, I'm really sorry. I didn't unsheath my sword on purpose, which caused everyone's uneasiness. I would like to apologize to you all," the young man said while bending down with his hands in hand.
Pedestrians around were stunned when they saw this young man on the rural road behaving so abnormally. No one dared to step forward to respond to the strange young man's apology. The middle-aged man saw this scene and hurriedly rolled over and crawled away. He walked up to Lin Manliu. When the two were still seven or eight steps away, the man stopped and then forced out an extremely ugly smile.
"I'm really sorry for bumping into this young hero just now. Don't blame me, young hero," the man said with a smile.
"It's okay. I have some things to think about. If there's nothing wrong, I won't bother you anymore. I'm really sorry." Lin Manliu still faced the man who had spoken rudely to him before, bowed his hands, then turned around and prepared to leave quickly. Having caused bad thoughts, it would be better to leave as soon as possible.
"Who wants to leave after bullying someone in my Hehua Bay?" But before Lin Manliu had gone far, a question came from the fields on the west side.
The young man in a short shirt subconsciously glanced sideways and discovered that there was a small pavilion in the middle of the field. He was just rushing along without noticing the pavilion surrounded by lotus leaves.
In the middle of the pavilion sat a man dressed as a farmer, but there was no trace of dirt or dust on his body. There was not even a trace of dust in the pavilion. He was completely different from the busy pedestrians on the road and the farmers in the fields picking lotus leaves and tending flower buds. people.
As Lin Manliu glanced sideways, the people in the pavilion saw that the young man in short shirts had not stopped, so he spoke again, with some slight anger in his words: "Is it possible that I am able to do this just because I am young?" You wander around the world at will, do you think you are just a kid playing around?"
"This is indeed my first time traveling far. I don't know what my seniors have to say." Lin Manliu stopped and turned to face the farmer in the pavilion.
When the farmer man saw the boy turning around to face him, he stood up and looked at the boy in a short shirt. He changed his current angry expression and his face became warmer.
"I saw my little friend, who just drew his sword very fast, and I wanted to get acquainted with him. I wonder if it's convenient." The farmer followed Lin Manliu's example and bowed his hands from a distance across the lotus leaf field.
"It is a good thing to make friends when you are away from home. I thank you for your kindness." Lin Manliu could only flatter him. This scene seemed a bit familiar. When he was traveling with the caravan, he also met someone in the rapeseed field. Yunxia's way of speaking is exactly the same as that of this farmer.
The boy in a short shirt secretly thought, do all these Jianghu people talk like this?
