live with conscience

Thirty miles east of Handan City in Zhao State, there is Niutou Mountain, and there is Niujia Village at the foot of the mountain.

The village is built on the mountain, and it is scattered among the mountain streams. If a person of insight passes by and studies carefully, he will find that the layout of the village's gates is actually very ingenious.

A circular protective formation was formed from the inside to the outside, faintly enclosing a family in the mountain.

The population of the village is no more than a hundred households, and the population plus the old and weak, women and children, is only six hundred. Almost every household has dried meat hanging, and beans and grains are drying. It looks like a place with sufficient food. Although the clothes are inevitably patched, they are clean and tidy, and they have enough food and clothing. In the midst of this war, it can be regarded as a happy land.

This is just what everyone sees now. Ten years ago, this village was not much different from other villages. It was just as poor and barren.

However, there have been major changes in recent years. Especially in recent years, the people in the village seem to have become enlightened. All the men are strong and extraordinary, and because they often go hunting in the mountains, they have become good hunters. After learning a good skill of firing porcelain, life will become more and more abundant.

Fortunately, many high-yielding seed plants have been found, and after planting, food is abundant.

Because the old village head of Niujia Village is a visionary, he does not hide his personal interests, but finds an opportunity to contribute all this to the nobles in Handan free of charge.

However, just like God Blessing Niujia Village, when contributing to the nobles, I happened to meet Zhao Wang who was in high spirits (head dizzy), traveling in micro-services (looking for color), and after coping (flattering) properly, he was appreciated by Zhao Wang and won Taking the post of pavilion chief, which is not too big or small, can be regarded as completely establishing Niujia Village in Zhao Guo.

Not to mention the rich and powerful, but the selfless dedication of the good seeds of this village, which was rewarded by King Zhao, made the dignitaries dare not take action on this small village easily.

It should be said that when there is no particularly big interest involved, no one will come to trouble the village.

The old village chief used his wisdom again, mobilized the whole village, and built the village into an iron barrel, loose on the inside and tight on the outside, so that outsiders can see that the village is just cautious because of its sudden prosperity, and it is very guarded against outsiders. .

In fact, the village is indeed very wary of outsiders.

Because in their village, there are amazing fairies and fairies.

The fairy boy and the fairy girl are a pair of dragon and phoenix twins who were entrusted by the grandson and granddaughter-in-law of the old village chief ten years ago in Handan City by a noble family who had saved his grandson.

When returning to the village, the baby girl was breathless for a while, and then suddenly opened her eyes again under a sharp bird song.

At the same time as the baby girl opened her eyes, a strange gray bird flew into the window and stayed by the baby's side.

Like a guard, except for eating, drinking and washing, no one is allowed to get close to the baby.

Even the feeder will be stared at by it motionless, as if afraid of the feeder hurting the baby, quite spiritual.

The prestigious old village chief clapped his hands on the spot when he found out: "These two probably have a history, and we must definitely take care of them."

As a result, the village head's family took care of the two babies more attentively, and even their own blood relatives and great-grandchildren had to be in the back row.

Sure enough, two years later, there was a drought, and the harvest in the field was greatly reduced. King Zhao recruited troops, and the village fell into a predicament of food shortage. The giant beast made the village survive the most difficult period of time.

It also allows the surviving young adults to return from the army without having to face the end of their wives and children.

From then on, everyone in the village spontaneously defended this pair of dragon and phoenix twins whose life experiences were enigmatic.

Because the couple who helped take care of him really didn't know who the nobleman was, and they couldn't find out.

And the growth of dragon and phoenix twins did not disappoint the people in the village. The longer they grew, the more aura they became, and they brought huge changes to the whole village.

When the divine bird first came, it was only as big as a newborn baby, but after one year, it became as strong as a calf, and after two years it was as tall as a nine-foot strong man.

It has giant claws and iron beak, and strong wings. I followed it to hunt young adults, and I saw it slapped a mature tiger away with a flick of its wings.

A knowledgeable old village head said that the divine bird is not a bird, but a divine sculpture.

After the fairy boy and fairy grew up, Shendiao's temper became more and more docile, and he was free to wander around the village, looking for a comfortable place to bask in the sun and sleep.

The children leaned over to touch it and didn't chase it away. From time to time, they would use their sharp mouth to hold a couple of naughty babies by their collars, lift them off its back, press them down with their wings, and sleep together .

The villagers are very relieved of this spiritual sculpture.

But this divine sculpture was not like this when it first arrived.

It almost never leaves the eyes of the two babies who are waiting to be fed.

After the baby can walk and crawl, it takes on the role of caregiver. It is not until the fairy boy and fairy can take care of themselves that they relax.

But it still won't let the fairies and fairies out of its sight.

Just like when the village was hit by a disaster, when it went hunting, it hung fairies and fairies around its neck. After the villagers found out, they worked together to transform a basket suitable for birds to fly, and then changed it to a back basket.

Fourth Aunt Niu took a basket of wild vegetables, walked to the divine sculpture, and pulled out her own brat who was playing tricks on the divine sculpture: "Shen Diao, bask in the sun, I took my four cows back home, I saw you just now When Niudan took a group of brats with him, he sneaked away towards the back mountain."

"Gulu?" The big eagle uttered a suspicious whisper in a very humane manner.

"It's true, Niudan took Niujia and they sneaked up behind me, thinking I couldn't find it, poof~" Fourth Aunt Niu's chubby body trembled, her eyes were full of fun watching : "They never give up..."

"Gulu!" The big eagle woke up the remaining children, stood up, and spread its wings.

"Okay, I'll send the children to their homes. It's time for lunch. Don't worry."

As soon as Fourth Aunt Niu finished speaking, the big eagle kicked its legs and flapped its huge wings a few times. A strong wind blew up, making people unable to open their eyes. He flew towards the back mountain.

Only the laughter of Aunt Niu and the joyful cheers of the children remained.

In the back mountain, our Niudan really led his brothers, lurking outside a herd of elk.

Niudan: "Bull A, Niu B, are they lurking? We're about to start."

Niu A and Niu B looked in the direction of their little friends, and nodded with certainty.

Niudan held his long wooden spear tightly, aimed at the deer, and threw it hard.

It is said that it is a wooden spear, but it is better to say that it is a slightly processed, ordinary spear with one end sharpened.

It's just that the spear in his hand flew towards the deer's head with extraordinary speed and strength, as if it had been blessed with some magical power.

Finding something wrong, the head deer who was just about to issue a warning was pierced by the spear before it could make a sound. Following the momentum of the spear, it slid a certain distance in a strange and awkward posture, and was nailed straight to the ground. .

The tragedy of the head deer made the deer panic and run in all directions.

The friends who had been ambushing for a long time also took out their spears one after another, aimed at the scattered elk, and attacked quickly.

The fleeting opportunities were grasped quite well by the friends, and the spears they brought almost never failed.

Niu Jia shouted, "Report the eggs, no, my lord, 11 people hunted a total of 25 deer, all of them are in the prime of life!"

Niudan's expression distorted for a moment when Niu Jia called Niudan, but after hearing the harvest amount, he couldn't help but cracked his mouth and smiled triumphantly: "Okay, count the battlefield, and return to the camp to reward the meritorious deeds."

"Oh~" The children's happy cheers startled the nearby birds and beasts, and there was a gust of wind in the woods.

After the cheers, Niu A quickly came to his senses: "Niudan, won't Missy be angry that we sneaked up to the back mountain so sneakily?"

Niudan didn't care at all: "If you don't tell me, I won't tell. Who knows, I'll go back and ask Grandpa Zeng to put the prey on the uncle's account. As long as we don't tell, my sister will only take care of the flowers and plants in the yard and sleep. , never going out of the yard, it is impossible to know."

"Gollum?" Really?

"Must! I'm going crazy if I'm not reading or writing every day! It's just going out to exercise my muscles and bones. If there is no injury or pain, Grandpa Zeng doesn't care. Also, I told you not to learn from Xiaogu. The sound scares me, cow... A..."

The very confident Niudan turned his head and saw all the familiar gray hairs.

Looking up, he saw the familiar big eagle standing next to him.

At this time, he folded his wings and stood in the most comfortable posture, with his neck curled up and his head raised, his gaze looking down was full of interest.

From his special brown-gray eyes, Niudan saw himself looking up with a distorted expression, with a big head and a thin body.

Why is my sister's guardian animal here!

At this time, shouldn't he be driven by his sister to the village's grain drying field to bask in the sun and watch his baby?

"Gulu?" Say it, why don't you continue talking?

Shen Diao tilted his head, as if waiting for the performance of this naughty bear baby.

The other children were busy in their own way, very tacitly found vines to twist ropes, turned spears and sticks into rafts, or tied up prey.

The method is neat and straightforward, just not looking at the cow egg that is being stared at by the divine eagle.

Niudan: A group of guys without loyalty.Or not brother!

Brothers: We don’t want to be punished for copying books and eating grass (vegetarian), so, brothers, bear it yourself!

Knowing that his brother is unreliable, Niudan quickly changed his strategy: "Xiaogu, how about giving you half of my harvest today as long as you promise me to go back and not tell my sister about my sneaking hunting?"

The divine carving raised its head slightly, and let out a low hum of disdain.

"Gollum?" Only half?

Niudan gritted his teeth: "Basically, you have to save a bite for me."

"Gulu!" Rejected, this little meat is not enough to fit between the teeth.

Others can't understand, but Niudan, who is almost raised by the god eagle, understands it, and he immediately gets angry: "Xiaogu, you are the god eagle, not those stupid birds with no style, how can you take advantage of the fire and rob without leaving any room?" Yes, anyway, you watched me grow up, do you have the heart that I don’t have meat to eat? I was punished by my sister not to eat meat for six days because I didn’t have a good reading strategy, and you can see that I’ve lost weight!”

"Gulu." Didn't realize, it's still so fat!

The Divine Condor was obviously unmoved.

Niudan continued to pretend to be pitiful: "If it wasn't for the meat, would I have sneaked to the back mountain? The seven languages... my sister is so smart that she can remember it with a photographic memory, but when I see those words, I faint Ah! Why are there so many countries and so many fonts? When will I learn it before I can pass the test and become a teacher!"

Niudan thought bitterly, one day, I must abolish all the writing, only one kind!

"Gulu~" Don't care what I do.

The Divine Condor opened its wings leisurely and gracefully smoothed the feathers under the wing nests, showing that he was not in a hurry at all.

"Gulu~" Besides, what is a divine sculpture, can it be eaten?

Niudan who can fully understand the voice of the divine sculpture: ...

Is this still a sculpture?Obviously a rogue.

The little friends looked at each other, and Niu Jia said: "Shen Diao, otherwise, we will share half of our prey with you this time. When you go back later, don't tell the eldest lady, okay!"

Niudan was moved: good brother!

"Gulu~" deal.

Immediately, the Divine Condor ignored his fur, shook himself up with refreshment, spread his wings, fanned the hurricane, and lifted off into the air.

Hurry up and screamed sharply at the top of their heads, obviously urging them to move and go back to have dinner.

The young men who passed the customs immediately cheered up. You carried, or carried or dragged, and quickly withdrew from the mountains and forests. After all-there was meat to eat!

Hehe ~

However, their excitement only went down the mountain and returned to the entrance of the village, because they neatly carried their prey, and saw a bright girl holding an unknown bouquet, standing there quietly, as if waiting their return.

The divine sculpture, who was one step ahead, stood obediently behind the girl.

The girl looks very energetic from a distance, but as soon as you get closer, you will find that her face is pale and bloodless, and no matter how she wears her clothes, she will look spacious. One can imagine how slender her body is wrapped up. thin and weak.

As a result, the first time Niudan saw her, he subconsciously ran two steps faster to help his sister who seemed to fall down when blown by the wind.

I believe everyone has already guessed that the girl holding the flowers is Lin Lan, our soul-broken Lin Lan, and the divine sculpture is the little bone who traveled with her.

After supporting Lin Lan, he remembered belatedly. It seemed that he had just gone hunting in the back mountain, and now he was stolen and captured by his elder sister.

Cow eggs: ...

"Sister, you woke up, look, I killed a lot of venison for you today!"

Did you agree not to tell the truth?

Why does his sister who never goes out appear at the entrance of the village? This is far away from our home.

"Gollum."

The divine eagle took a step left and right and said: I didn't say anything after I went down the mountain.

I just told the owner before going up the mountain.

"I heard from Xiaogu that you went hunting in the mountains. I thought it was you who wanted to eat meat!" Lin Lan held the refreshing flower in her hand and sucked it vigorously to keep herself awake. Got it for me, thank you, cowdank!"

Niudan immediately said doggedly: "Is my sister here specially to wait for me? Today my sister seems to be in much better spirits."

From an angle that Lin Lan couldn't see, she gave Xiaogu a hard look: "Obviously my sister knows it, but you still lied to me!"Excessive!

"Sister, dear sister, let's have a discussion. I'm already 11 years old. Can I stop being called Niudan? Isn't my real name Niu Zheng? Change it!"

The ones with cow eggs and cow eggs are almost the same as dog eggs. As the king of children in the village, it's too shameful!

It is difficult to establish prestige!

"Shouldn't you ask the village chief, Grandpa Zeng?" Lin Lan said, whether to use the name or not, you shouldn't ask the elders, and ask her why: "You have finished your homework today?"

Niu Zheng: ...

Sister, if you don't take the lead in changing your words, no one will. Don't think I don't know, you did it on purpose.

Moreover, no matter how crooked the topic is to such an extent, I still can't hide it!

Niu Zheng's expression had already told everyone.

"Huh?" Lin Lan glanced at him.

"No..." Weak.

"Then why did you appear in the back mountain..."

Lin Lan felt that she was quite tolerant of her younger brother's standards.

It is only required that he can understand a craft, not be illiterate, and also understand the basic treatment of medicines.

There was no way, she was in a hurry to find a plane to heal her wounds.

After the battle with Hongjun, her soul was peeled off by herself, not to mention the pain.

Even if I was lucky enough to meet Papa, and with the support of Papa's potion, my soul barely recovered, but the sequelae of forcibly stripping my soul were still there.

For soul healing, a purely physical technology plane is more suitable.

Safety is one, and low fees are the second.

Anyway, in this plane, relying on Xiaogu, she can walk sideways.

If it wasn't for the dead girl who was possessed this time, and a fellow brother, she might have let Xiaogu take her and hide in the deep mountains and old forests, and healed her wounds peacefully.

Through Xiaogu's line of sight, Lin Lan knew that this plane was still in the backward ancient times. Judging from the development of the lower-level humans, although it was better than the previous plane, it was not much better.

Even, the era when she was possessed was still a war-torn era where many countries were divided. No matter what, she couldn't leave her brother in this body alone.

Not because they were in a poor family, but because, she overheard, neither she nor her brother were the biological children of this poor family.

The poor farmers in the war are not their own children.

The chances of an accident happening are too great.

As a spirit, she couldn't let this accident happen.

However, Lin Lan was asleep almost all day because of her soul injury. It was impossible for her to take care of a baby, and Xiaogu didn't have this kind of skill, so she had to stay.

She thought it would be good for her to leave after her younger brother mastered the basic survival skills.

However, the ideal is full and the reality is cruel.

She has already lowered her requirements so much, and her younger brother is still a variety of naughty bears.

It's not that my younger brother is stupid, on the contrary, he is very smart.

He learned a skill very quickly. Judging by his level of hunting, he would be able to do well anywhere with this skill. Ideally, he might be able to become a great general and marshal.

Of course, the medicated bath that Lin Lan gave him since he was a child is also a very important reason. Although his physique looks like a son of an aristocratic family, no one knows how powerful he is.

But other things, such as not being illiterate, knowing basic herbal formulas, etc., he didn't care at all.

Every time, it was perfunctory, hiding as much as possible, running away as much as possible, making Lin Lan dumbfounded.

"Sister... dear sister... can I not learn, these things, it's good if you are here, the seven languages, I see my head hurts, and those herbs, I can't tell the difference at all... you Don't embarrass me, I want to eat meat...Sister...I've been vegetarian for two days...I'm hungry..."

Niu Zheng looked at Lin Lan pitifully, as if Lin Lan had treated him badly.

"Well, as long as you finish today's task, you can eat meat."

"That's great~" Niu Zheng happily did three backflips: "I'm going to find grandma to get venison... Sister, you go back to the room and lie down, I'll serve it to you later~"

After speaking, afraid that Lin Lan would regret it, he quickly motioned for his little friend to run away.

At this time, Lin Lan was also thinking about whether her education method was wrong.

Even the punishment of being a vegetarian can't calm this guy down, causing him a headache.

After watching the children in the village amusedly salute her respectfully, they also trotted away.

The villagers shouted with joy when they saw what they had harvested.

Let's change the way of education.

After lunch, Lin Lan took Niu Zheng to find the old village head.

Ever since Lin Lan knew how to express herself, the old village chief took the lead to set an example, and everyone in the whole village was very respectful to their siblings, and they usually behaved like masters and servants.

Niu Zheng was not surprised, and still respected the old village head as an elder, and he never missed the coquetry and troublesomeness of a junior.

He just knew that his sister was busy today, so he just thoughtfully helped the old man sit on the couch, and then stood quietly and obediently.

The old village head asked respectfully: "Miss, you came to find me suddenly, but what are your orders?"

No wonder he is so formal.

Because every time this frail and always sleeping eldest lady came to him, it was a big deal.

This young lady has been extraordinary since she was a child.

The first time was when the village was about to run out of food, she came to him and asked for a big basket and a rope, and then Shen Diao took the two children into the mountains to hunt.

At that time, she was only a little over two years old.

The second time was when she found several high-yielding plants in the mountains and came back to tell him how to plant them.

It is the crop that was paid tribute after the experiment in Niujia Village.

That year, the lady was a little over five years old.

The third time was three years ago, when she came to tell him that the boys in the village and Niudanwa should practice martial arts and calligraphy together.

Before he knew it, there were actually many books and bamboo slips in the village.

Although this one said it was her master's bequest, he just listened to it.

As long as it is beneficial to the village, he will be a deaf-mute old man, and it doesn't matter if he helps her cover.

Sure enough, under her guidance, the boy in the village is vigorous and vigorous day by day, and he is also developing in the direction of knowledge and understanding, which is not inferior to those so-called children from aristocratic families he met when he was young.

In these children, he seems to have seen the bright future of Niujia Village.

This is the fourth time she has come to him.

I don't know what she is doing this time.

"Grandpa Zeng, the Zhao country can't last long. The war is about to start, and the general trend of the Qin country is on the rise. Let's move Niujia Village to the Qin country! Here is the map and the address of the route. I found a place in the mountains not far from Xianyang. The land. I have saved enough gold and silver for you there."

This was the first sentence Lin Lan said.

"I'm going to take Niudan... Niu Zheng to go on a study tour. If the children in the village want to go, they can go with them. We will return to Xinniujia Village to meet you at the end."

Old Village Chief: ...

It's not to question Lin Lan's decision, but to be amazed, surprised and admired!

This eldest lady, besides lunch and dinner, and teaching this group of brats all day long, the combined time of waking up does not exceed an hour, how did she do all these unnatural things well!

The divine sculpture with deep merit and fame: "Gulu~"