As your fingers pull, time quietly speeds up.
Since we were inside the car this time, the car curtains and curtains were closed, so there was no comparison of time.
For Lu Yuan, it was just a gap of one second. As soon as he finished explaining, the next second he heard the driver say: "Master, Qianshan City has arrived."
This bizarre feeling of fast forwarding time made Lu Yuan feel dazed for a moment.
Lu Yuan withdrew his hand, opened the car curtain, and saw the city gate gradually appearing in front of him.
The surrounding tall mountains are green and continuous.
The green river meanders through the mountains, and the sound can be heard for ten miles, and the roar of the river is all in my ears.
When the convoy arrived at the gate of Qianshan City, the gatekeeper came to search, count the number of people, and pay tolls.
Lu Yuan doesn't have to pay, Zhuge Xiu will pay for it on his behalf.
"There's someone hiding under your car. Come out quickly. Are you trying to evade taxes?"
"ah?"
Zhuge Xiu's voice sounded in front of him. Before Lu Yuan could react, he heard another familiar girl's voice.
"I, I'll be out right away..."
There was a sound from under Lu Yuan's carriage.
"This is my toll, please accept it." The girl said weakly.
"That's right. Don't try to use your imagination."
The goalkeeper pointed at his canine pet. If he wanted to evade taxes, he had to first avoid the snout of his pet.
Otherwise there would be no door.
And a beast master who can avoid the smell of a canine pet beast is probably not easy to mess with.
Lu Yuan opened the curtain of the window on the right side and saw a petite girl with a gray face and mud marks all over her body, and a small mantis standing on the girl's shoulders, waving two swords with its forelimbs to greet Lu Yuan.
"Jiang Xue?" Lu Yuan was surprised.
He never expected that the girl would hang upside down at the bottom of the carriage and follow him all the way.
Is her arm strength that strong?
Lu Yuan looked at the girl's slender arms, then at her pet beast, and understood.
Her ability to hang on to the bottom of the car upside down had nothing to do with her physical fitness, but everything to do with the mantis around her.
Mantis beasts are born with strength, and Jiang Xue's body is light. It only needs to stretch out two hands to grab the beast master's waist, and the other four legs to firmly buckle the horizontal bars under the carriage. It does not require much strength.
Before Lu Yuan practiced, he felt the car was a little bumpy.
It turns out that the commotion caused at that time was because she got into the car secretly.
"You, you have recognized the wrong person. I am not Jiang Xue."
Jiang Xue covered her little face with her hands, not wanting Lu Yuan to see her disgraced look at the moment.
"Your mantis beast has already said hello to me. Stop pretending. Why are you following me?"
Lu Yuan rolled his eyes and exposed her lie to her face.
Jiang Xue had no choice but to tell the truth:
"I, I want to find a way to awaken the skill stars. I am not willing to live in the village for the rest of my life...
"I am a child from the countryside. I am now sixteen this year. Girls my age are basically married in the village, but I am not married yet...
"Now that the evil spirit in the south is gone, the village will no longer have to pay tribute. Grandpa will definitely devote himself to finding a man who is willing to marry into the Jiang family...
"I don't have the natural talent to control beasts. Once I get married, I won't have time to train the little mantis. Like other people my age, I will just muddle along, have children, and be tied to the village for the rest of my life...
"I don't want to live that kind of life. I want to travel around the world and increase my knowledge like my predecessors!"
When Jiang Xue said this, her voice became smaller and smaller, and her confidence was very low.
But when she said the last sentence, she still mustered up the courage, raised her head and told Lu Yuan that she did not want to spend an ordinary life, she wanted to increase her knowledge.
Lu Yuan looked at the girl and felt the depression in her heart, which was so real.
At the same time, he also felt the struggle under fate, the heart that dared to fight against fate.
Is this really a dream?
It always feels like this is the real world.
"Why don't you get in the car? Don't block the road here. People behind you have to get in."
The goalkeeper came from the end of the motorcade and told Jiang Xue to get in and stay out of the way.
The momentum that Jiang Xue had finally accumulated was suddenly cut off when the goalkeeper shouted, and she shrank.
"You come up first."
Lu Yuan opened the car curtain in front of the door and reached out to pick her up.
"Ah, senior, do you agree?" Jiang Xue saw Lu Yuan extending his hand in the air, and his face immediately lit up with joy.
"I agreed to something, you come up first."
"Yes, senior!"
She smiled happily, at least the senior didn't turn her away and could take her into the city.
As soon as she stretched out her palm, she saw her dirty little hands and clothes full of mud and dust, and she felt a little embarrassed.
Snapped.
However, Lu Yuan didn't think she was dirty. Seeing her hesitation, he immediately stepped forward, held her little hand, and pulled her up.
The motorcade immediately continued to move forward. Zhuge Xiu in front leaned out of the car window and gave Lu Yuan a thumbs up.
Lu Yuan didn't know what he meant, so he didn't reply. Instead, he lowered the car curtain, sat back in the car, and said to the girl directly opposite:
"I won't talk about the thing about you hanging the car upside down. After coming to Qianshan City, have you thought about how to develop? How many days can you last with the money on hand? What kind of work do you do to support yourself and Little Mantis?
"Although the little mantis doesn't need to eat resources, you don't have the talent to control animals. If you want to live your own life, you need to compete with others for resources. This is not an easy road. The first problem to solve is work."
Lu Yuan had been a volunteer teacher for half a year. When he spoke, he unconsciously adopted a preaching tone and analyzed her current problem word by word.
Jiang Xue was stunned for a moment after being told that. The courage she had just gained was once again shattered, and she immediately felt confused.
Yes, she didn't have any plans. She just saw the wider world from Lu Yuan, and thus she developed a yearning for the outside world.
Then she got excited and saw Lu Yuan going to Qianshan City, so she followed him.
Now that she entered Qianshan City, she became confused.
But no matter how confused she was, at least she had taken this step. The rest, she had to find a way to make money.
"Me, little Mantis and I can be sparring partners and go to Mantis Beast's martial arts gym to find jobs. Grandpa said that there are many people in the martial arts gyms in the big city and there is a shortage of sandbags. I can be someone else's sandbag. If no one wants it here, then go and find more jobs." Find a job in a big city!”
Under heavy pressure, Jiang Xue quickly thought of such a plan.
Although she has not experienced much yet, she has not even planned how to survive.
But grandpa didn’t come here the same way. Take it one step at a time. As long as you can survive, you can slowly improve yourself and travel throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty.
She wanted to follow her grandfather's path and work in the city, changing cities every year to look for opportunities to improve the strength of her pet beast.
When Lu Yuan heard this, he put away his questioning eyes and said seriously:
“As long as you can find a job.
"However, whether you can make it or not, I will write to your grandfather and tell him what you really think.
"Your grandpa is not one of those pedantic people. As long as you speak up, he will support you.
"You probably didn't tell grandpa before you left. He must be angry now."
Lu Yuan has an agreement with the Jiang family. His tree is still planted in the Jiang family's courtyard. If Uncle Jiang is not stabilized, who will cultivate his tree.
As for Jiang Xue, Lu Yuan felt that it was not a big deal.
Because in reality, there are many such students in remote villages. They are trapped in resource difficulties and knowledge shortage, and they are eager to make progress.
Lu Yuan has always been supportive of students like these who want to make progress.
However, the help he can provide is limited. It is enough to help them analyze the current situation, point out the direction of efforts, and lead them to take the first step as beast masters.
The rest is all up to the individual.
