I farmed in ancient times

Time flies, and soon it will be the third day of March, two big days for the villagers of the desert village.

The first is the day when Damo Township worships the mountain god every year, and the second is the day when Damo Township opened a school for the first time since it settled down, and the school started classes.

Jueming got up early in the morning, yawned and finished the meal, then fell asleep on the bed in the east wing. After Cen's father got up, he took the sleepy Cen Chaoan to wash his face and brush his teeth, hurriedly ate breakfast, and rushed to school.

Worshiping the mountain god lasts a whole day. At present, no matter whether there are school-age children or not, they are all crowded at the entrance of the ancestral hall, watching the scorpion master in white shirt come lightly.

Villagers in Damo Township have only one word in their heads: look good.

When Cen Daonian arrived at the ancestral hall, under the auspices of Li Zheng, he announced the opening of the school, lectured on the rules of the school, distributed pens, ink, paper and inkstones, asked the students to register their names, and started school.

Cen Daonian found that the naming of Damo Township is very regular. Boys are all dog eggs, iron eggs, and dog leftovers... When they grow up, they can choose a word and add a surname at home to form a name. There are also exquisite families. Afterwards, they found someone to give him a nickname, but children were used to being called "little life" since they were young. When Cen Daonian suddenly called him a nickname, many people looked left and right in a daze, not knowing who they were calling.

Jueming slept in the bed for a while, and when he woke up, he heard a lot of noise outside, so he drank a bowl of porridge in a hurry, and when he went out, he found villagers in Damo Township carrying things to Panshan. Orion hunting in the mountains.

When Jue Ming walked to Uncle Shi's house, Uncle Shi had already gone out to participate in the sacrifice, and only Uncle Shi's daughter Shi Xiaohua was left at home, so Jue Ming stopped outside the courtyard and asked loudly, "Sister Xiaohua, is this the ceremony in Damo Township?"

Shi Xiaohua was drying her clothes, when she heard Cassia Ming's question, she looked out with an empty basket and nodded, "Yes! It's just that this year is much more lively than previous years. Daddy said last night that many people in the village watched This year, the mountains are shining, and it is said that auspiciousness has descended to Panshan!"

——Glow in the mountains?

Jue Ming asked: "When did you see it?"

Shi Xiaohua shook her head, "I don't know either. If you are interested, you can follow the sacrificial procession to see it. Anyway, there are many people. I agreed with Xinghua and Dujuan to go and see together later."

Caesar thanked him, went home and locked the door, and walked behind the sacrificial procession with the villagers who joined in the fun.

Panshan worships the mountain god once a year, which lasts for three days and three nights. The county magistrate who works in Yang County usually follows the folk custom and comes to pay homage to the mountain god before the end.

The people put two baskets of rice and millet that had just been harvested last year, and then took two chickens, ducks and fish, which means that the five grains will be plentiful and the six animals will prosper.Their blessings are nothing more than good weather and a peaceful family.

Orion dedicates its prey to the mountain god, thanking the mountain god for allowing animals to multiply in the mountain and allowing Orion to hunt in the mountain.

Jueming followed the team and slowly walked up the hill with the crowd, and saw a hulking figure walking in the front of the team from a distance, that was Shi Xiaohua's father.

"Uncle Shi, Uncle Shi." Jue Ming chased after him in two or three steps, walked up to Uncle Shi, and pretended to ask unintentionally: "I heard from Sister Xiaohua that there are more people offering sacrifices this year than last year?"

"Yes." Uncle Shi and another hunter carried a roast suckling pig, and replied to Caesar: "This year, the auspiciousness descended from heaven can be seen in Yang County. The auspiciousness falls straight on the Panshan Mountain and dissipates. Can there not be many people?"

Caesar Ming asked: "When did the auspiciousness appear?" '

Uncle Shi frowned, thought for a moment, and Orion on the side said, "It seems to be the time before Master Cen and the others came."

"Yes!" Uncle Shi patted his head, "Look at my memory."

"If you want to know what day it is, you can ask Lizheng. Lizheng will definitely write it down and engrave it on the stone tablet in the ancestral hall."

Orion is very enthusiastic.

Uncle Shi hurriedly introduced to both parties, "This is Master Cen's eldest son, Cen Jueming. Jueming, this is the eldest grandson of the Lizheng family, Wang Wenqi."

Jueming saw that Wang Wenqi was about 89 years old, several years older than himself, so he called out, "Brother Wang."

Wang Wenqi waved one hand repeatedly, "It's too polite, just call me by my name, I will also call you Cen Jueming."

"Okay!" Jue Ming didn't hold back, the two chatted a few more gossips, and walked along the mountain road to the winding mountain together. There were many people coming today, and the wild beasts in the mountain heard the human voice from a distance, and they had already left in shock. Even so, Uncle Shi still had a hatchet pinned to his waist just in case.

After walking for half a day, the group stopped at a waterfall in the mountains. The waterfall is surrounded by smooth stone walls and tightly surrounds a small pool. Standing opposite the small pool, you can see a stone statue under the waterfall.

It must be the stone statue of the mountain god.

Caesar bowed with the crowd, not asking for a good harvest or being able to hunt wild animals, but only asking the mountain god for some instructions, whether the "auspiciousness from the sky" that day was a vision caused by tracing the source and falling in this time and space.

After all the people visited, they sat around the small pool, chatting and playing around. Today, no one has anything to do with farming and mulberry, and they all chatted over wine.

Cassia got up after worshiping, and suddenly felt a chill in his chest.

—Could it be beads?

Caesar took out the beads from his chest and turned his back to the sun, the beads shone slightly.

"Huh?" Jueming held up the bead, the bead was brighter, afraid of being seen by others, so he found a place with few people and took out the bead in his hand.

When the beads face the water, they are brighter, and when they face the way back, they are a little dimmer.

—Is it possible? !

Excitedly, Caesar held the beads and approached the small pool. The beads shone with blue light, as if they were alive.

There are too many people now, it is not suitable to check the water pool.

Jueming suppressed his excitement and returned to the village with the returning villagers. Early the next morning, after making breakfast for Cen Daonian, he said "go hunting" and headed into Panshan Mountain with a small bow and arrow.

As long as the weather was normal in the morning, when Jueming said he was going hunting, he was actually going for a walk around the mountain. Cen Daonian was used to it and didn't suspect it.

Along the mountain road stepped on by the worship, Jue Ming soon arrived at the small pool where he visited yesterday. It was still early and no one came, so Caesar worshiped the mountain god and stood by the small pool to take out the beads.

The blue beads shone brightly, Jue Ming walked around the small pool, cut a branch to test the depth of the water, the small pool was not deep, and was not as tall as a person, if the source was traced to the small pool, the body would definitely be exposed .

——Could it be that I think too much?

Cassia was a little discouraged.

The bead was still bright, and the radiance did not diminish. Cassia raised his head and looked at the waterfall.

There may be something above the waterfall, so if you stand here and give up, this is not cassia!

Jueming looked around the waterfall. The waterfall was surrounded by smooth cliffs, as high as a two-story building. If he wanted to go up, he could only climb up from other places.

Along the stone wall of the waterfall, Jue Ming walked a few steps south, found a place with a gentle slope, tied the hatchet firmly to the quiver, stuffed the beads into his clothes, and climbed up the slope bit by bit. climb up.

It took only a cup of tea before Jue Ming climbed up from the slope, sat on the spot to take a rest, and Jue Ming observed his surroundings.

Due to the "natural moat" of waterfalls and stone walls on the slope, few people come up. The ancient trees on it are towering, and the climate is humid and warm.

After resting, Caesar took out the bead and pointed it at the place where the water flowed. Sure enough, the light of the bead was a little brighter than before the waterfall. Cassia's eyes lit up, and he grabbed the bead and ran towards the direction of the water.

What came into view was a large lake.

Panshan belongs to the Central Plains, and there are many evergreen trees in the mountains. At this moment, the lake is surrounded by green trees, and the lake water is as blue as gemstones. When the sun rises, the lake water is sparkling and shining.

This lake is much larger than the small pool, but for some reason, so little water flows into the small pool, and the accumulated water in the small pool stops before it reaches the foot of the winding mountain.

The closer to the lake, the beads exuded a biting chill, so Cassia had to hold them with his hands, and the beads became brighter and brighter. Cassia squatted by the lake, holding the beads to test. He broke free from his hand and flew to the center of the lake.

All of a sudden, a strange wind blew up the entire lake, and sand and rocks flew away. Caesar raised a hand to block his eyes, and saw a long oblique water column in the center of the lake being swept up by the strange wind, and the lake water rushed towards the center of the lake crazily.

The trees around the lake were rustled by the strange wind, and the birds and animals in the forest were running around.

--How is this going? !

The water level of the lake dropped rapidly, and the water column gradually became smaller. Only then did Caesar see clearly that the water was continuously sucked by the blue pearl, and there was not a single bit left.

The lake gets deeper and deeper, the deepest point can reach more than ten meters, and the water level is getting lower and lower, exposing a silver light in the center of the lake.

Jue Ming took a closer look, the silver light was very familiar, it was traced back to the source!

Caesar bowed and took off his shoes, tucked the corners of his clothes into his belt, and rolled up his trousers, carefully stepped on the soft and slippery sand at the bottom of the lake, and walked quickly towards the source.

It may be that the lake water has a buffering effect. After the tracer landed here, there was no damage on the surface of the body. Cassia touched the tracer, and suddenly felt a little scared, what if his body was lying inside.

Gritting his teeth, Caesar opened the hatch and lowered his head to enter the cabin. The cabin is tightly sealed and the inside is very clean. It seems to be the same as when he left the earth.

The seats in the cockpit were empty, Jue Ming looked around, except for metal and glass, everything else had disappeared.

Cassia sat in the driver's seat and saw that the pointer of the traceable fuel was pointing to 0. He pressed the button again, but the instrument did not respond.

As long as the airframe is still there, the airframe is still there, maybe one day we will be able to find suitable fuel to allow the traceability to take off again.

Cassia comforted himself in this way, he knew that in ancient times it would be difficult to develop four kinds of fuels and three kinds of combustion accelerants.

Fearing that water would gather in the lake again, Cassia got out of the engine room and moved towards the shore.

In the middle of the air, the beads no longer absorbed water, and stood motionless on top.

After Jueming left Suyuan, a strong wind suddenly blew up at the bottom of the lake. Jueming tried his best to stabilize his body. When the strange wind passed, he turned his head, and there were only the round pit left by Suyuan and the fish constantly flopping in the muddy water at the bottom of the lake.

Cassia Ming was surprised: "Trace to the source!"

However, Suyuan did not appear, and Caesar stayed for a moment, then frowned and thought about where Suyuan would go.

The water-absorbed beads trembled in the sky and fell to the ground. Caesar went to the bank to pick them up and squeezed a handful of them.

The beads made a "crash" and sprayed water all over the ground.

--How is this going?

Cassia squeezed again, but the bead didn't respond, it was as quiet as an ordinary beautiful blue bead.

Caesar squeezed the bead again, but there was no response from the bead. Seeing that the sun had risen directly above the sky, and there was no trace of the source at the bottom of the lake, Caesar put the bead away and slid down the stone wall where he came, to the small pool.

Beside the small pool, Jue Ming lifted up the hem of his short robe and knelt down on one knee, planning to go down the mountain after worshiping the mountain god again, when suddenly there was a loud "gu dong" on the other side of the small pool, Jue Ming was startled, and immediately raised his head to that side Look, after the water splashed in the small pool behind him, a man in black floated upside down in the pool, and around him, bright red blood instantly spread everywhere in the water.

—Is this man dead or alive?

Caesar stood up, fixed his eyes on Xiaotan, and took a few steps back vigilantly.

A voice came from above the waterfall: "Dead."

Immediately afterwards, Jue Ming heard another person exclaim, "Wu Yuan!"

In the next second, Jue Ming saw a figure swaying from the other side of the waterfall, and fell straight to the side. The stagnant waterfall could not cover half of it, and the person fell into the pool with a plop, and the water splashed everywhere.

On the top of the stone wall, a man looked down with a sword in his hand, and then facing the sun, he jumped off the edge of the stone wall and fell into the withered vines and grass beside the small pool.

——What are the backgrounds of these two people?

Jueming didn't want to get involved in trouble, let alone bring this trouble into the village. After hesitating for a moment, the man who landed limped from the shadows, and Jueming saw his face clearly.

It was a young man with disheveled hair and a mess.

He has bright eyes and sparse eyebrows, and his appearance is dignified, not like a villain.

Wu Yuan was seriously injured, Li Xiurong was in a hurry, he only glanced at the child carrying the quiver, and shouted: "Hey! This little, little brother, come and help me! Is there anyone around here?!"

"There is no one here." Jue Ming took a few steps back vigilantly. Seeing that he not only did not come to help but retreated, Li Xiurong threw away the long sword in his hand and said anxiously: "We are not evil people, my brother is about to die!"

"Then why don't you go?" Jue Ming asked, and then glanced at the pool, the person who fell jumped twice, and was about to sink into the water, Jue Ming took off the quiver on his back, and ran quickly, Swim into the water and half-drag and half-drag the person toward the shore.

Li Xiurong was helping at the side, and the two of them pulled him up together. The young man coughed up a few sips of water, and he passed out completely.

Jue Ming checked it out. The wound on his body was deep and long. It was obvious that he had passed out due to excessive blood loss. Li Xiurong dug out from his arms but found nothing, so he had to tear off his clothes and tie up the wound for Wu Yuan indiscriminately. Ask the children on one side, "Hey, how far is it from the village?"

Cassia: "It's far away."

Li Xiurong was anxious, "Take us to a nearby village!"

Feeling that his tone was too blunt, and afraid of scaring the child in front of him, Li Xiurong softened his tone: "Hurry up and take me to find a place to stay. I, Li, will have a big thank you!"

The other party was only fifteen or sixteen years old, but seeing that the two of them were only young men, but they were hunted down to the point where they were covered in blood, the person who wanted their lives behind him would definitely not let it go, if they ended up in the village, disaster would happen Dongyin, it's not just one or two households that suffer.

Li Xiurong saw that the child on the opposite side was still in a daze, only when he saw that his master and servant were covered in blood and he had never seen such a big scene, half dragging Wu Yuan forward a few steps, Li Xiurong said: "If you can lend a helping hand today, Li will pay a lot of money to thank you for today's kindness."

Do I look like the kind of money-grubbing person?Jueming sighed, and said bluntly: "You two, what if you lead the pursuers into our village? If you are killed by him, wouldn't those in our village who have seen you also be killed?"

Li Xiurong gritted his teeth and said: "Where are so many nonsense! If we don't go to the village to settle down, we should find it or find it!"

As soon as the words were spoken, Li Xiurong felt that his attitude did not seem to be begging for help, so he softened his tone, "I don't ask to enter the village, you can just take us to the edge of the village! Besides, the pursuers behind are all dead. Someone will catch up."

It's not far from the village, so instead of letting them wander around here like headless chickens, it's better to take them to find a place to hide in, so that the village won't be affected if there are pursuers.

Jue Ming thought for a moment, then nodded, "That's fine, come with me."

Seeing that the little boy finally agreed, Li Xiurong picked up the long sword and put it into the scabbard, and dragged Wu Yuan who was lying on the ground onto his back, dragging the wound, he gasped with a "hiss", his whole face wrinkled together.

It's not that he wants to take him down the mountain, but he is afraid that if this person stands here, what if the villagers see him and cause a commotion.

Jueming turned around quickly in his mind, and came up with a good idea, "How about this, let me take you to the temporary hut built by Orion nearby, I think your friend seems to be seriously injured, you need to treat the wound first .”

Li Xiurong nodded sharply, "Quick, quick."

Caesar Ming led the way and took the two of them to the thatched wooden hut that Orion had built in the mountains, and then struggled to clean the iron pot in the wooden hut and find water to boil.

Li Xiurong covered the wound, first took off Wu Yuan's dripping clothes to stop the bleeding, then took the hot water from Jue Ming, Li Xiurong hurriedly wiped Wu Yuan's area around the wound.

Seeing that he could tidy up by himself, Jueming took off his clothes and hung them to dry by the fire. When the clothes were almost dry, he plunged into the forest and groped for a long time. He found a half-sized pheasant and plucked it downstream. Bloodletting, carry the washed pheasant to the cabin, set up an iron pot, raise the fire to boil water, chop the chicken and sprinkle salt.

After a while, the boiling hot water sent out the aroma of chicken soup.

Seeing this, Li Xiurong gulped down a mouthful of saliva, thinking that this little brat has quite a lot of stuff when he goes out.

When the chicken soup was finished, Jue Ming took out a small wooden bowl, scooped out a bowl of soup, sat at the door and drank two bowls in a row.

Li Xiurong's stomach was filled with thunder, and he was ashamed to speak. He watched the child as big as a bean fill half a pot of soup and ate half a chicken, but he didn't mean to be polite at all. He got up annoyed, and said bluntly: "I'm hungry." Already!"

Jue Ming turned his head and glanced at him, his dark eyes were clearly black and white.

"Oh." After answering, Jue Ming sat at the door and gulped down the last sip of soup in the bowl.

"I want chicken soup!"

When Li Xiurong said those words, he felt ashamed and indignant.

As the youngest son of the Li family, he has never been so embarrassed, let alone open his mouth to ask someone for food.

Cassia Ming leisurely turned around, Li Xiurong's eyes lit up.

"Want some soup?" Jue Ming stretched out his hand, "A bowl of soup costs ten Wen."

Li Xiurong showed an incredulous expression on his face.

"Just one chicken is more than this price, besides, I am still a pheasant." Jueming put away his hand, "I hunted the pheasant, and I boiled the soup."

Li Xiurong touched the money bag subconsciously, and the copper coins in it jingled, not even a hundred coins.

Looking at the unconscious Wu Yuan beside him, Li Xiurong gritted his teeth and pulled the money bag off, throwing it into the child's arms.

"You! You looting enemy! I, Li Xiurong, have remembered it!" Li Xiurong took the wooden bowl and angrily went to the stream to brush it ten times.

"Hmph." Jue Ming weighed the purse, this brainless boy didn't say who he was just now, and revealed his real name when he got angry.

After the copper coins were exchanged for chicken soup, Li Xiurong filled a bowl, brought it to Wu Yuan, and forced it to be poured into his mouth. Jue Ming couldn't bear to look directly, took the wooden bowl from Li Xiurong's hand, and pushed him aside, "I Come!"

The chicken soup in the wooden bowl was still hot. Cassia cooled it down for a while, and after testing that the temperature was just right, he helped the man lying on the ground against the wall, straightened his head, squeezed his chin, and slowly poured the chicken soup into it. .

Even though he was unconscious, the man still swallowed subconsciously and fed him two bowls of soup. Cassia put him down and put a handful of dry grass under his head.

With injuries all over his body, Li Xiurong went to the river and cleaned the wooden bowl ten times before returning to the Orion's hut.

After serving a bowl of soup, Li Xiurong closed his eyes and took a long breath of the aroma, then raised the wooden bowl and drank it.

"Why is it so light!" Li Xiurong looked at Jue Ming, this kid obviously has a small jar of salt!

"You're injured, eating too much salt won't do you any good." Jue Ming stood up and lit a fire in front of the door.

——After being injured, how can you be worthy of the bleeding if you don’t eat some meat and tonic?This little boy is not only greedy for money, but also stingy.

After Li Xiurong drank the chicken soup, he wiped his mouth and put the bowl on the open space beside the pot.

"What's your name?" Li Xiurong asked unceremoniously: "Why are you a child, and you came to this deep mountain?"

Changing his surname into his first name, Jue Ming replied, "This mountain."

"I hunt, don't I go to the mountains or go to the sea?"

"Jinshan?" Li Xiurong said happily, "Well, the name is quite like you."

"Then can you help me treat the wound behind me?" Li Xiurong took off his red robe, revealing the forearm-long, finger-deep incision behind him.

Cassia held out his hand.

Li Xiurong looked at him incredulously, "Could it be that you have to charge for such a small favor?"

Cassia rolled his eyes angrily, "Medicine."

"Yes?!" Li Xiurong touched his whole body, penniless, and said angrily, "I have no money!"

"Don't you need herbs to heal your wound?!" Cassia supported his forehead.

"I left in a hurry, and I didn't bring any medicine with me." Li Xiurong showed his back to Jue Ming, and said in a muffled voice, "Just wipe it off."

Caesar had no choice but to boil a pot of hot water, tore off a piece of his clothes, boiled them in the boiling water for simple disinfection, and slowly wiped around his wound, "The knife wound on your back has begun to scab."

Enduring the pain, Li Xiurong clenched his hands tightly while chatting with Caesar: "How far is this from the village?"

"Not far." After finishing wiping, Cassia threw the blood-stained cloth into the fire.

"How far is not far?" Li Xiurong frowned.

Jueming lied without blushing, "It takes three days and three nights to go down the mountain."

Three days and three nights is too long.

I don't know if Wu Yuan can survive it?