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He also gave himself a name.

"My name is Zanthoxylum bungeanum, the flower of five flowers." After looking through Po Meng's tattered "Complete Names" for a long time, the little boy in black finally chose one: "Cinnamon is actually good, stewed Put some cinnamon in the meat, fragrant!"

Du Nan: ...

He seriously suspected that the book with half of the writing on the cover was not "Compendium of Names" but "Compendium of Spices".

On the contrary, Granny Meng wrote down the name he chose, and while retracting the book, she chuckled, "You doll also know how to stew meat?"

Not humble, the little boy in black... No, Huajiao said confidently: "I can stew meat, but the meat here is not easy to get. If there is a chance to get meat, I will cook it for you to eat, and I will bring it to you." You recognize me."

Generous, natural and polite, old people like this kind of children are the favorite of Granny Meng, and now Granny Meng is even more cheerful: "Well, I don't need you to make meat, my mother-in-law will find you a piece later, you Can you cook it for us?"

"Okay!" Luo Luo Da Fang agreed, and Hua Jiao smiled at the old man.

She chose her own name, registered it, and finally sent Granny Meng out. Zanthoxylum was very comfortable, as if the person who had been living here was not Anise, but him.

The five-flowered flower... Zanthoxylum bungeanum... It seems... Even the name looks closer to Daddy... Bajiao is still struggling with his new name, Zanthoxylum bungeanum has already drank the remaining white flower soup in his bowl in three mouthfuls, Wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, he said to Du Nan: "I know where there is a better kindling, where no one else knows, do you want to bring it to me?"

Knowing that he wanted to find fire for his own body, Du Nan agreed, he himself came here as a child, and he knew that children can always find some strange things that adults can't, especially peppers. Bold and careful child.

On the contrary, Huajiao attached great importance to this matter. Not only did he prepare a lot of things, but he also said to Du Nan: "Can you call the snake and the horse back? It's a bit far away, and we may have to delay for a long time to go there."

Du Nan nodded and blew the horn hanging around his neck. He and Zanthoxylum prepared things together. The back basket is the most important thing. Besides, he also prepared some meditation grass. I don't know if there is any there The Concentration Grass can be picked, since the journey is far away, it is best to prepare meals in advance.

On the contrary, Bajiao was very interested in the horn that Du Nan just blew, and kept looking at his neck. Seeing that he was interested, Du Nan simply picked the horn and let him play with it.

"This is a horn made of conch in the sea. If Hong Mei and Ah Qingjin recognize this sound, they will come back when they hear it." He said to Bajiao.

"Sea? What is that?" Bajiao asked puzzled.

"It's a place where a lot of water gathers together. It's very large and very deep. The water inside is salty."

"Salty? Is there any fish in it?" Anise asked again.

"Most seas have fish, but the sea where I got this horn has no fish."

"There are no fish, but there are dragons. There are a lot of dragons." Because those dragons eat everything, conch shells are more precious than dragons in the real east.

Although there is nothing but dragons in the sea of ​​the True East ← but this is also a way of saying that when the boundary gap is occasionally opened due to ocean currents or other reasons, some things in other seas will still take the opportunity to flow into the True Sea, but the amount is too large Few and the dragons in the real sea are too ferocious, basically nothing is left before people find out, but some extra hard conch shells will stay and be buried in the sand on the seabed.

For the children of the True East, being able to get such a conch is a very special thing to be proud of.

First, this kind of conch is rare; second, these conch are only found in the bottom of the sea, and if they can get conch, it proves that they have the ability to dive to the bottom of the sea. Therefore, people in the real east—whether they are men or girls, will go there when they are about the same age. Touching conch shells, these conch shells are cherished by them as meritorious deeds, and the most common ones are made into horns to call dragons. Du Nan's horn is also made in this way, but it is not for calling dragons, but for calling unicorns. If you have no teacher, you know the sound of the horn, and when you hear the sound of the horn, you run faster than Ah Qingjin every time, which makes Ah Qingjin very vigilant.

It's a bit like star anise and Chinese prickly ash - Du Nan thought silently.

Looking down, Bajiao is still touching the horn, and Zanthoxylum has already moved over. Fortunately, Bajiao is not a withdrawn character. He thinks that Zanthoxylum is also interested, so he takes the initiative to show the horn to Zanthoxylum, and is Zanthoxylum really interested? Interested, he took the horn, touched it cautiously for a long time, and asked Du Nan if he could blow it for a while, and after getting an affirmative answer, he blew loudly twice.

But Bajiao's eyes widened again: Why didn't he think of asking Dad if he could play?

So, after quickly asking Du Nan and getting permission, Bajiao also took the horn and blew it together. The two little guys blew the horn once and then blew the horn. "The horn sounded.

Sure enough—not long after, Du Nan saw a red shadow and a black shadow flash across the wall, and in the next second, Hong Yanruo and Ah Qingjin appeared in front of them at the same time.

Seeing that the trumpet blowers were star anise and peppercorns, Ah Qingjin froze for a while, but when he turned his head to see that Du Nan was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief.

On the other hand, Hong Yanruo, with a bulging mouth, didn't know what she was eating, so she looked at it carefully: good fellow!I don't know what this guy has been eating outside recently, but his waistline has become quite thick!

Somehow, he also realized that Ah Qingjin was a little afraid of Bajiao and the others, so this time Du Nan arranged for two little ones to ride on Hong Ruo, while he himself rode Ah Qingjin. Under the guidance of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, they quickly left the village. Crossing a valley full of white flowers, walking through a forest full of green trees, crossing a wide river, and then going down the river, until you reach a deep canyon, and finally drilled a cave. After making several turns in the cave, their eyes suddenly opened up, and they came to a very indescribable place.

It's really hot here——Du Nan felt suffocated.

After entering the valley for about a stick of incense, Du Nan began to feel the heat around him, and then it became hotter and hotter. He could only pinch a cooling spell to protect himself, Ah Qingjin and Hong Miruo, but Anise and Zanthoxylum bungeanum didn't know if it was because it was a spirit body, but it seemed that it didn't feel strange at all.

Because Huajiao was always excited, Du Nan endured it, and when Huajiao finally whispered "It's here", he had already shielded him with three layers of cooling spells, but it didn't work, and Ah Qingjin and Hong Yanruo He even stuck his tongue out.

Take a look ahead - a lot of fire!

Du Nan was surprised to find that they were standing on top of a flame!

Those fires were not high, the tallest one was no more than three or four centimeters, and could not even cover Ah Qingjin's hooves. However, they were clustered together and burned quietly, until the air above them was fuzzy. This scene is indeed a bit spectacular.

Du Nan hurriedly found a few formation disks from the storage bag, picked out some of the previously created runes and embed them on them to make a simple floating formation, left two to step on, and put the other They made ice trays and distributed them to Ah Qingjin and Hong Yanruo, and kept one for themselves, which barely relieved the heat.

"Not bad, right? I just said that more fire here is better." Huajiao said triumphantly.

That's really true. Although the fire cave that Old Tang took him to had a lot of fire, it was much less than here.

"You are really amazing—" Du Nan praised sincerely.

Hearing this, Huajiao became even more proud, jumped off Hong Yuruo, poked Du Nan's hand, held it, and found that Du Nan didn't object, so he boldly pulled him forward, saying: "You don't need to look at or pick these fires. I'll tell you where the best fire is here. If you want to pick it, pick the best fire..."

He said, holding Du Nan's hand and walking inside for a long time, until he reached a place where there was no flame at all, he stopped, squatted down, and motioned Du Nan to look over there—to be honest, if it wasn't for Huajiao Pulling and pointing, Du Nan may not have noticed that there is still a cluster of flames here.

This cluster of flames is extremely short and small, only the size of a mung bean, and it is transparent. In fact, it still has color, but it is not accurate to say gold or white. Because it is too small, it looks more like it has no color. .

Pointing at the bean-sized transparent flame, as if afraid of waking up the other party with his loud voice, Huajiao whispered: "This is the best fire here, and it is the best for our urn."

"How do you know it's the best?" Infected by the pepper, Du Nan also lowered his voice.

"I just know that you don't dare to come to it without looking at other fires? It's because they are afraid of it." Huajiao affirmed.

Du Nan: The reason is really...

But Bajiao didn't believe it: "Maybe it is the weakest? You see it is so small, other fires think it is weak and don't want to be with it. Look at the cluster of golden flames over there, in the center of all the flames. , it must be the most powerful! Grandpa Tang also said that the golden flame is one of the best flames."

"Cut! That's better than he has ever seen. If you don't believe me, you should try it, try it with a golden fire!" Squinting his eyes, Huajiao squatted and said to him.

Aroused by his words, Bajiao went over to get the golden flame. He used the small dish that Old Tang used to get the fire for them before, and it was made of the ore in the fire hole, which is very heat-resistant. .

Holding the cluster of exuberant golden flames, Bajiao carefully poured it onto the mung bean fire below...

In the next second, Du Nan and the others saw an incredible scene - the moment the two clusters of flames touched, the small transparent flame, like a lurking predator, exploded and enveloped the cluster of golden flames , as if opening a big mouth, swallowing the golden flame.

In just a split second, the golden flame disappeared at a speed that could not be seen in the blink of an eye, and the cluster of transparent flames returned to the size of mung beans before, burning there quietly, as if they were not burning.

Only this time, no one dared to underestimate it.