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Chapter 18
Chu Huan didn't move. It was impossible for him to leave Nan Shan on his own, and he was not likely to rashly blend in when the ins and outs were unknown, so he just watched the changes.
Nan Shan turned his head and switched to his own language, ignoring the giant python, and familiarly said to the "water ghost" on the snake's head, "You come down."
The water ghost glanced at Chu Huan, and Chu Huan sat on his horse with a look of "I don't understand what you are talking about", and indifferently bearing the hatred of the other party killing his father and taking his wife.
The water ghost looked at the gully and the gully, and he was unwilling to move-if someone said "come down", he would have to come down. Where should he go? Besides, it was still in front of Chu Huan, an outsider.
But compared to humans, animals are very honest. After hesitating for a while, the snake slowly lowered its head and half sank into the water.
The water ghost's complexion was depressed, his face became whiter, his breath became heavier, and his head was full of fire.
Chu Huan was the object of hatred he wanted to burn to death.
The water ghost suddenly roared, jumped up from the snake's head, crossed Nan Shan, and rushed towards Chu Huan.
Nan Shan raised his hand and crossed the patriarch's scepter, and the stick body was stuck on the neck of the water ghost. This time it stuck hard and inch. The face of the water ghost suddenly changed from the white rice to the blood of the mosquito, and Nan Shan's palm tightened suddenly. , The water ghost fell backward, the python hurriedly supported him, anyhow he didn't let him lie down and drink water.
The water ghost stepped back and barely stood still, he bent down and coughed violently.
The big snake wiggled its tail anxiously, and the river was a series of restless ups and downs.
Nan Shan glanced at him blankly, turned his hand to catch the viper with a bird on the horseback, patted the horse, and said to Chu Huan and the others: "It's okay, you go, these days There happened to be something in the clan, so the class will stop for a few days."
Make sure that he is level, Chu Huan turned his horse's head.
Until they walked out for a long time, Chu Huan could still hear the water ghost shouting at Nan Shan with his unique voice: "You actually brought an outsider! Did you forget the last one?"
Compared to his anger and frustration, Nan Shan's voice is much more soothing: "You don't need to worry about it."
The water ghost jumped like a thunder, and he talked a lot. He said that was over 200 miles too fast. With Chu Huan's proficiency in the Liyi language, this time he really couldn't understand it.
Going a little further, not only can't understand, but also can't hear. When the fog is thickest, there is no one in front of and behind, and the sound seems to be blocked.
When they walked away, Nan Shan leaned down/over, touched the python's head, and sighed, "Let's go."
The "Water Ghost" stood frozen in the water, trembling with anger.
Nan Shan glanced at him, adding a bit of tone: "Lu Ge."
The water ghost named "Lu Ge" angrily jumped onto the python's body: "I think you are crazy!"
After speaking, he drove the python and swam away quickly.
Nan Shan stood alone in the thin river water for a while. After a while, he turned around and looked in the direction where Chu Huan and the others had disappeared. His entire legs were soaked in the cold water, but he didn't feel cold. , It's just that the fog is too big, and his heart is in a trance.
At that moment, Nan Shan suddenly remembered a sentence he had read in an old magazine that Chu Huan had brought, "Looking at the World", which seemed to be quoted by the writer of the article. Chu Huan said it was from one of them. Picked from the ancient poem.
"Heaven and Earth" Nan Shan knows, but what is "yoyo"?
I asked Chu Huan that the ancient poetry appreciation class that Chu Huan took when he was a child had been returned to the teacher intact. He didn't know how to tell. He just told Nan Shan according to his own understanding: "Maybe it means very big and very broad. It's so big that people have nowhere to focus and are powerless."
Although the river hadn't passed his waist, nor was it big and wide, Nan Shan had already felt "yoyo" at this time.
The little poisonous snake slowly wrapped his arms and climbed onto his shoulders, with the wooden bird in his mouth.
"This time the door opened so early, I'm afraid the'over there' will not be able to hold it anymore." Nan Shan stretched out his palm to hold the snake's head and asked to himself, "What will happen then?"
The little viper made a "hissing" sound, and then perhaps realizing that he couldn't make any constructive suggestions, he spit the little bird on Nan Shan's palm and gave him a gift to comfort him.
Nan Shan lowered his eyes, held the big head and small bird and looked at it for a while, and patted the head of the following little poisonous snake sadly: "If you don't understand anything, it will add chaos, alas."
He didn't have the way of pulling the wind to return from riding a snake. He just lowered his head and walked back step by step in silence.
If Chu Huan came back to take a look at this time, he would be shocked.
The usually sparsely populated settlements in the Liyi Clan were extremely crowded. The roofs of the branches were covered with scary birds of prey, and there were several giant pythons entangled in the trunks, slowly vomiting letters, heaven. But it was extremely gloomy, like a large pot lid pressing on the top of the head, brewing a storm carrying lightning and thunder.
Many people as pale as Lu Ge seemed to emerge from the ground overnight. They stood quietly behind Lu Ge, clearly separated from the people of the Liyi Clan.
There are men, women, and children in the Liyi clan, but Lu Ge and the others have only young men and women.
Lu Ge sat sideways on the high erected snake head, staring at Nan Shan not far away with all the monsters.
As everyone watched, Nan Shan bent down calmly, carefully wringing out his soaked trouser legs and hair one by one.
The little bald head ran over, with no eyesight. He tilted his head regardless of the occasion and asked Nan Shan: "Patriarch, where is the king?"
Nan Shan said: "I'm out, I'll ask him to do something."
Little Bald asked worriedly: "Are you coming back?"
Hearing this, Nan Shan sorted out his movements. After a while, he waved at the little bald head: "Come here."
As Xiao Baldou’s former idol, the patriarch is still a bit charismatic. Xiao Baldou was summoned over with joy. He stood on tiptoe, hugged Nan Shan’s thighs, and looked up at Nan Shan with a smirk. Natural nympho.
"He'll be back in a few days." Nan Shan touched his head, then he glanced around, before everyone was in full view, and asked the little bald head meaningfully, "If one day he wants to leave us, you think Go with him?"
The little bald head is too small, and he has not developed heavy concepts about hometown, homeland, relatives, etc. In his opinion, whoever likes will go with them. This is a logical logic. Hearing Nan Shan asked, he immediately did not hesitate to place it. Nodded and answered loudly: "Yes."
Since Nan Shan asked that sentence, Lu Ge's face on the snake's head was no longer ugly.
Nan Shan didn't look at him, raised the little bald chin, and asked, "Why do you want to go with him? Don't you want us?"
The little bald head shook his fingers and counted him: "Because the king gave sweets to him, I like him if he gives sweets to him. Whoever I like best is the best looking, then the king is the best. My grandmother said, When I grow up, I want to marry the best looking person to be a wife!"
Nan Shan gave a slight click, and did not make an "adult-like" evaluation of this naive "impeccable" reasoning.
But while talking, the little bald frowned on his own. He couldn't help but put his hand into his mouth and bit his hand unconsciously: "But if I go with the king, I won't see Abba and Ama. I can’t see the patriarch anymore."
Nan Shan: "Yes, what do you do then?"
The little bald frowned and tangled for a long time. Finally, his young mind realized that it was impossible to get the best of both worlds. The little boy thought about it and forgot that it was just a hypothesis. He took it seriously and was so anxious that he bit his fingers and bit Nan Shan. Pants.
But even biting a hole in Nan Shan's pants still didn't help. The little bald head couldn't help but feel sad, and cried with a "wow".
The little bald mother hurriedly took a step forward and performed a solemn and ancient manner to Nan Shan. Before the dead child sloppyly wiped his nose and tears over the patriarch's pants, she brought him back.
Lu Ge asked coldly: "Nan Shan, what do you mean?"
Nan Shan turned to face him: "This year's'door' seems to have opened early."
Lu Ge gritted his teeth and said: "Don't change the subject-just bring an outsider into the clan, do you have anything to explain?"
Nan Shan calmly erected the patriarch's scepter to one side, and the fist-sized jade inlaid at the top was washed with water, revealing a shining luster.
"One day we have completely fallen here. I hope that the people will not be desperate. After crossing the river, they can talk about people on the other side of the river and make a living by selling things or helping others." Nan Shan said, "So I find someone to come. Teach us to speak, is there any problem with this?"
"Fart," Lu Ge interrupted him viciously, "Senmen of dozens of generations, I have never seen a stubborn patriarch like you!"
"Liyi Clan" means "mountain guards", and it is Lu Ge and the "gatekeepers" who live with them. They have followed the same way of life for generations, guarding the same land and secrets.
Nan Shan is not anxious and not angry: "The guardians of the early decades did not face the problem of'falling'."
Lu Ge whispered: "Then you mountain guards should die with this place! Are you afraid of death? Coward!"
Nan Shan fell silent.
He looked around his people-the little bald head is still eating hands, Flower bone has big eyes that look exactly like her mother... They have children who don’t know anything, girls who haven’t had time to marry, and when they go around There are young men who recite Chinese words, and old people who just want to spend their old age.
They are different from the so-called "gatekeepers" in front of them.
Although the gatekeeper has a close relationship with the mountainkeeper, they are very different from each other.
Gatekeepers are made by "doors". They are born without father and mother, and they are lonely. They have not experienced an ignorant childhood. They have grown up like this when they open their eyes in the world, and when they are old and powerful If he fails, his family will send him to death according to the rules.
The life of the "gatekeeper" is not real at all. At the end of the day, they are like a pair of worm-eaten trousers or a corn seedling with rotten roots.
What can I say to them?
No need, it doesn't make sense.
Nan Shan's face faded, and he said not very politely: "Life and death are our mountain guards' business, it is not your turn to talk."
Lu Ge's fingers dig into the scales of the giant python. The giant python trembles abruptly. He lifted his upper body halfway, and then barely suppressed it. He carried Lu Ge and did not dare to move.
The atmosphere between the two suddenly became tense, and the people on both sides stood dark and crushed, and even the raptors and pythons did not dare to say a word.
I don't know how long it took, Nan Shan suddenly heard a howl behind him, breaking this suffocating confrontation-a little guy who was born last year, was frightened.
Nan Shan's gaze finally moved, he narrowed his gaze, and sighed lowly: "Come down, everyone will get together three days a year. Let's not waste it on quarreling."
Lu Ge paused and pinched the snake's fingers slightly. For a long time, he nodded hastily. He was down on this step. He said, "This year's'door' opened half a month earlier than in previous years. You'd better be psychologically prepared. Recently, we observed that the'over there' may change the sky, this is just a matter of the past two years."
Nan Shan nodded lightly, "Thank you."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and beckoned. In Spring, holding a wine jar in both hands, her little daughter Flower bone put a plate of handmade pastries on her head and walked to Lu Ge.
Lu Ge's expression slowed down, and he patted the snake on the head, and the python fell down docilely.
Lu Ge first broke half a piece of pastry from Flower bone's plate, and took a ceremonious bite, then stretched out his cold hand and pressed it on the little girl's forehead. Another "gatekeeper" walked behind him. Come up and take the plate in Flower bone's hand.
Lu Ge took the wine jar in Chuntian's hand again, took a sip from the jar, and handed it to the people behind him as well. He lowered his eyebrows and greeted politely: "Sister Chunchun."
Spring smiled at him, and like every adult, there seemed to be a hidden worry in her smile.
Every year when the end of autumn and winter comes, the gatekeeper and the mountain guard have these two tribes together for so many days, logically, Liyi-the mountain guard will pick up the dust for them.
The singing and dancing began in a depressed atmosphere, and gradually eased down, and people quickly found familiar intimacy.
Nan Shan took two jars of wine and walked to Lu Ge's side and handed the other a jar. He looked at the sun set in the west, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, even if I want him to stay, he will refuse me. I will send people away before winter comes."
Lu Ge glanced at him, silently held up the wine jar, and touched Nan Shan's wine jar. The two drank a sip of wine each. Although no one spoke, it was a reconciliation.
It was already dark, and the little cubs who had drunk the wine were asleep in the open, and the voices still remained.