Chapter 4: The Green Beast
As soon as the day dawned, Tianxian had already appeared at the door of the big house with a small package on his back.
The early children were playing in the yard, and when they saw that Tianxian was all gloating, they laughed loudly.
"Tian Xian, come back every day to listen to Sanniang's lectures, don't be late again!" Tian Zhengze stood behind Tian Xian with a cold face.
"Hmm!" Tian Xian turned around and nodded respectfully, "I remember, father." ”
Tianzheng looked at his son, his eyes flickering faintly, "Go, there is still ...... Take good care of yourself. ”
Tianxian couldn't help but be stunned for a moment after listening to the second half of the sentence, looked at his father in a daze, and then said: "With that old fish as my companion, it's okay." ”
Tian Zhengzhi nodded, turned around slowly, and walked back to the big house.
Good bye......
Tian Xian silently bowed to his father's back, turned around and left the compound.
There is little water source on Huowu Mountain, but the top of the mountain cloud condenses into a jump river after condensing into water droplets, this river flows all the way to the foot of the mountain, it is the most important water source of the entire Huowu family, this river passes through a zigzag place in the back mountain, here it converges into a pool of water that is not too large, the pool water reflects the changing clouds, faintly blue, and is called the pond by the fire and fog family.
It's very quiet, and there's a bright, dry cavern where most of the people think about it when they make a mistake.
For here, Tianxian is already very familiar with it, and among all the children, Tianxian is the one who has been here for the longest time.
Put the small cloth bag into the cave, Tian Xian came to the edge of the pool, first washed his face, and then found a hollow bamboo from the side and inserted it in the water, and found a good leaf in the woods on the side, and then returned to the edge of the pool and sat down.
He took a few deep breaths, took the leaves in his mouth, and played the leaf flute in front of the empty bamboo exposed outside the water.
This leaf is nourished by the fire mist mountain flame, the surrounding perennial clouds surge, blowing up as if with a scorching heat and lightness, the day is idle and two lives, although it is a ten-year-old child, in the empty mountain forest, this leaf flute is with a bit of vicissitudes of life, a wisp of thought penetrates the past and present life, in this black stone and clouds swaying and echoing, smart like water, deep like a mountain.
A little microwave, with the sound of the idle leaf flute gently rippling in the pool......
Tianxian is completely intoxicated with the sound of his own leaf flute, and in the past ten years, every time he encounters something unhappy, most of the time Tianxian plays the leaf flute like this, entrusting all his thoughts and secrets that cannot be mentioned to people to this silent mountain and endless clouds.
Here, by chance, I met a friend who was not a friend.
The water waves of the pond are drumming, the calm water surface just now is surging up in a short period of time, the sound of the flute is melodious and ethereal, a column of water on the shore of the pond rises to the sky, and the huge black shadow roars and jumps out of the pool, slamming on the ground, making a huge sound.
A large splash of water poured the sky and the head and face were all over the place, and the sound of the flute suddenly stopped.
"You rotten fish! I told you last time not to get me covered in water!" Tianxian jumped up from the ground and shook the water quickly, but his clothes were already soaked......
After struggling in vain for a few moments, Tian Xian still took off his clothes in resignation, and hung them on the bluestone by the waterhole one by one, the ground of Huowu Mountain was warm, and the clothes were not afraid of drying.
"Hey, what are you doing? That's my food for today, not for you!" Tian Xian turned around and couldn't help but shout.
What jumped out of the waterhole just now was a giant beast with a black body, shaped like a baby fish, this thing was more than ten meters long, mixed with a slippery water, and the thin golden markings could be faintly seen all over the body under the flashing clouds, the head was round, and the lines between the mouth and eyes were delicate, and it seemed that the emotions of joy and sorrow were constantly changing on its face, this thing was led out of the water by the sound of the flute of Tianxian, but it went straight to the small package in the cave where Tianxian put it aside, and bit the package, and turned around to slip.
"Come and steal my things to eat again, that's what Sanniang specially prepared for me!" Tian Xian pounced and hugged the monster's thick tail.
The monster screamed twice in a sullen voice, its huge tail swayed, and the whole body of Tianxian was waved into the air, and its thick limbs exerted force, and it returned to the edge of the pool in two steps, and jumped up in the air in the shouting of Tianxian, and then crashed back into the pool
After a while, Tian Xian came out of the water with a depressed face......
"Hey, you rotten fish! That's my food for today!!!" Tian Xian shouted into the hollow bamboo tube inserted in the water.
The water waves in the pond rippled slightly, and there was still the shadow of the monster.
"If you don't come out again, I'm going to pee!" Tianxian said a little louder.
The water in the pond suddenly fluctuated a few times, and after a splash, several black shadows jumped out of it and fell straight to Tianxian, but they were a few fat silver-scaled blue-headed fish.
The monster rolled over in the water, and there seemed to be a flash of smugness on its exposed face, and it swung its tail and dived into the depths of the pool.
Tianxian looked at a few fat fish on the ground who were still jumping desperately, and had to sigh in his heart, this thing is really getting more and more unreasonable, and he used to eat it when he wasn't paying attention, but now he actually began to rob it blatantly.
Tian Xian found some dry wood nearby, set up a small pyre, and then quickly washed and cut the fish, put on thick sticks, and slowly roasted them on the fire.
Soon, a thick meat aroma spread, the fat on the fat fish "squeaked" outward, Tian Xian took the salt condiment that had been dried on the stone next to it to the fish and wiped it, and suddenly the aroma was more attractive, and Tian Xian's stomach couldn't help but growl.
"Whoa!"
There was a sound of water, and the swarthy monster came out of the water again, but this time it was much quieter, and slowly came to the fire, and lay down with its tail curled around the fire, and the pair of brown-yellow eyes squinted, but stared at the grilled fish on the fire.
"You've only eaten my food for a day, and you still want to come and eat grilled fish!?" Seeing that this thing came to pay attention to his grilled fish again, Tianxian's eyes couldn't help but widen.
The monster just smacked its mouth, and its tail swayed slightly, looking like it was waiting to eat.
Tianxian couldn't help but be angry and funny, looked at a circle of grilled fish by the fire, and divided two sticks and inserted them on the monster's side, "That's yours, this side is mine, don't come over to eat, do you know?" ”
The monster ignored Tianxian and fixed his eyes on all the grilled fish.
Realizing that he seemed to be hungry, Tian Xian picked up a skewer of fish that had been roasted, but had the most bone spurs, and needed to be very careful to eat, and handed it to the monster, "This is yours." ”
The monster let out a muffled roar and propped itself up, but bit down on the other grilled fish.
"Hey, hey, hey...... That's not yours!" Tian Xian hurriedly blocked the monster's eyes with the grilled fish, but unexpectedly, the monster's long tail had already wrapped around its back, and it swept away all the grilled fish with unusual agility.
When he was stunned to find that the monster had begun to feast on several grilled fish, he realized that the one he had in his hand was the only food he had.
"You stinky fish! rotten fish!" Tian Xian was in a hurry, but he couldn't do anything about it, so he pointed at its nose and scolded, so he had to sit down and eat his own grilled fish.
This fatty fish is a special product of Jintan, the meat is thick and fine, fragrant but not greasy, coupled with the fine roasting method that Tianxian has practiced for several years, it is even more delicious.
After eating half of it, I will be full when I am free, this fish is really big, and one fish can eat for a day.
The monster had eaten all the grilled fish and was already chewing on the bones.
Tian Xian has always felt that this monster is really strange, and the old people in the clan all say that this thing was in the pond before the Fire Mist Clan came here, and now it is at least eight or nine hundred years old, and it is an extremely rare spirit beast. It is also said that this thing is very powerful, and it is strictly forbidden for anyone in the clan to provoke it, but fortunately, this thing is gentle by nature, and has always lived in the pool, and has never attacked the fire mist clan for hundreds of years, only feeds on the fat fish in the pool, usually stays at the bottom of the water, and occasionally comes out to bask in the sun.
The old people call this thing the green beast.
But from the point of view of Tianxian, this thing is black and slippery, obviously it should be called a black beast, and this thing doesn't seem to see anything powerful about it except for its greedy mouth.
This thing actually eats meat first, and chews the bones when there is no meat to eat, which is simply greedy to a certain extent.
After thinking about it, Tian Xian still handed the remaining half of the grilled fish to the green beast, and the green beast immediately spit out the fish bones in his mouth, bit the half of the grilled fish and chewed it.
Is this something just to eat? Tian Xian couldn't help but think as he looked at the appearance of the green beast.
I got acquainted with this thing because of the grilled fish, and that time my food accidentally fell into the water and was all soaked, so I had to catch the fish in the pond to roast, and I was playing the leaf flute, but I found that this thing didn't know when it had come behind me.
That time I scared myself a lot, but fortunately, it seemed that this thing just wanted to eat fish, and after that, every time I was punished here, this thing would catch some fish in the pool and roast it for itself, and one man and one beast knew each other like this.
I didn't tell the people in the clan about this matter, because the clan strictly forbade contact with this green beast.
After eating the grilled fish, Tian Xian went to the woods again to choose a leaf and came back, sat on the stone by the pond, and played the melodious melody again, and the whole person's thoughts drifted to the clouds with the sound of the leaf flute.
The green beast was coiled in front of the burning fire, lying comfortably on the warm rocks listening to the leaf flute, looking pleasant, and the tip of its tail would gently beat on the rocks from time to time with the melody of Tianxian.
On the side of the quiet mountain and the pond, if there is a tacit understanding between a man and a beast, the clouds are long, and for a while, there seems to be only this tactful melody left in this heaven and earth.
After a long time, the tune gradually fell, and Tian Xian put down the leaf flute, "Rotten fish, this may be the last time I come here to be punished, you may not be able to eat grilled fish in the future, if you want to eat, you can catch more." ”
The green beast raised its head, a look of doubt on its delicate face, and then twisted its body and slowly slipped back into the water.
After a while, the green beast crawled out of the water again, but this time it didn't catch any fat fish, but picked up the small package of Tianxian in its mouth.
Putting the drenched package in front of Tian Xian, the green beast lay there around the fire again.
Tianxian couldn't help laughing, "It turns out that you haven't eaten it every time, what a cunning rotten fish!"
When I opened the package, the food that had been soaked in water was naturally inedible, so I didn't pay attention to it, but just took out a small cloth ball wrapped in an oilcloth from it.
Looking at this thing, Tian smiled happily, "If you don't take this out, I'll have to go into the water to get it myself, thank you this time!"
The green beast was coiled there, just looking at Tian Xian with a slightly puzzled gaze, as if he didn't understand what this little boy was going to do.
Opening the oilcloth bag, Tian Xian pulled out an extremely long and thin silver silk thread from it.
The thread is faintly silvery, but when you look closely, it is transparent, only the thickness of a human hair.
Tian Xian found the head of the silk thread, came to the green beast, pushed its heavy head to the side, and turned it in a pile of fish bones on the ground, and after a while, he found a few short filaments that were also crystal clear.
Sitting aside, Tian Xian carefully connected these silk threads to the long thread, and looked closely, this whole long silk thread was actually made of such short threads one by one.
This silk thread is actually a tendon that only the silver-scaled mackerel in the pond has, as thin as a hair, straight or bent, but tough as steel, ordinary swords can not be cut, the silver crystal lock that Tong Hu lifted before is made of this kind of thing.
Over the years, Tian Xian has been collecting this while eating fish, and in the dark, Tian Xian seems to have felt very early on that this thing is very useful to him.
After knotting each silver thread, Tian Xian breathed a sigh of relief, raised the silver wire and looked at the sky, the transparent silk thread seemed to exist in the cloud-white light.
"Today, it's the full moon......" Looking at the rolling clouds, Tianxian muttered softly.
Night falls.
The area around this pond is brighter than other places at night, the sky is full of clouds, and the water in the pond is rippling, sometimes it seems to be a little brighter than the daytime, especially ...... It's on the night of the full moon.
Tian Xian did not go back to the cave to sleep.
Tian Xian knew that today would be the day to decide his fate, so after sorting out the silver thread, Tian Xian climbed up a stone slope on a high place along the stone wall of the cave, quietly hiding in the dark shadow of the stone wall, and even his breathing slowly slowed down......
Over the years, Tian Xian has mastered the law, every full moon night, the green beast will crawl out of the pool, lie quietly on the rocks on the edge of the pool, and only return to the water at dawn.
Although Tian Xian didn't know what the green beast was doing, it had been verified many times that this was indeed a habit that the green beast couldn't shake.
And in this season of autumn and winter, especially on the day of the full moon of this month, there will inevitably be a strange event that almost no one in the clan knows about.
As the seasons change, the Cloud Eaters that migrate from the north to the south of Moyun Mountain will look for food everywhere, and the clouds around this Fire Misty Mountain will not invade, and the first one will become the target of Cloud Eaters.
The Cloud Swallowing Beast never harms humans, and at this time of year you can hear the roar of the Cloud Swallowing Beast resounding through the sky in the clouds, and occasionally you can see their huge figures wandering around the Fire Misty Mountain, but even if they occasionally fall on the Fire Misty Mountain, they never hurt people, just chase some strange beasts slowly, and they will leave quickly regardless of whether they have gained anything or not.
Every year on this moonlit night, the Blue Beast is harassed by the Cloud Swallowing Beast.
However, the brains of the Cloud Swallowing Beasts don't seem to be very useful, their reactions are relatively slow, and when chasing their prey, they can basically catch up with them slowly, and give up if they can't catch up slowly. As long as the green beast swings its huge tail in place, the Cloud Swallowing Beast will hesitate, and occasionally there is a special persistence, that is, to stay for a while, and then leave in a huff, never seen the Cloud Swallowing Beast show a furious side to launch a ferocious attack on the Green Beast, although it is said that it is very dangerous for them to be provoked.
The Cloud Swallowing Beast migrates back and forth every year, and such a scene has been seen seven or eight times by Tianxian
"The Cloud Swallower is not ferocious, it is an omnivorous giant dragon, don't panic when you encounter it, just wait for them to leave. ”
Sanniang's words echoed clearly in Tianxian's ears.
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Saying...... I asked for a ticket and asked for a collection
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