Chapter Fourteen [Being a Man]
Qingshan Town is located at the eastmost part of Qin State, while the legendary Wufing Peak, which almost reaches the sky, is located at the westmost part of Qin State. It is three thousand miles away, and dozens of cities have to pass through in the middle. Even the carriages have to walk for nearly a month.
The carriage team where Liu Zhuo was in walked for a whole day, and it stopped in the evening. The coachmen gathered the three carriages together to resist the cold wind at night and began to feed the horses.
Zhang Shun ordered a bonfire to keep warm again, and told everyone to rest with peace of mind. Then he returned to the carriage and sat up with his eyes closed.
The bumpy day made a group of teenagers who had never gone far away miserably. They all looked tired and got off the carriage, sat around the bonfire, and each took out their own dry food and started eating.
Among these people, only Liu Zhuo was most adaptable. Although the carriage was bumping on the mountain road, he didn't realize it at all. He just leaned on the carriage with peace of mind and closed his eyes to rest. The iron pillar was bumped enough and he vomited "wow" halfway.
At this moment, Liu Zhuo helped Tiezhu out of the carriage with a weak face, found a seat in front of the bonfire and sat down. Tiezhu collapsed to the ground and complained: "My bones are about to fall apart. There is still more than half a month left, but how can I endure it?"
Liu Zhuo took out the water hyacinth and drank it, laughing and said, "Stop calling, save some effort, you'll get used to it in a few days."
At this time, Li Kang passed by the two of them with a bag. He gave Tiezhu a blank look and said, "He is really a foodie. He can't do anything except eat."
Tiezhu jumped up from the ground and was about to fight back, but was pulled back by Liu Zhuo.
Liu Zhuo took out a few white steamed buns from his bag, and handed them to Tiezhu, saying, "Sit down, don't be chaotic!"
Tiezhu's eyes lit up, he took the steamed bun and took a bite, stared at Li Kang's back, and stuttered: "Zhuozi, when did your family become so rich? Do you use white flour as dry food?"
"Eat yours, stop talking too much." Liu Zhuo said casually. When he saw that Li Kang had opened his bag, he took out white flour steamed buns and some bacon, and ate it on his own, looking extremely arrogant.
Liu Zhuo turned his sight and ignored it. He took out a piece of bacon and baked it in front of the bonfire. However, he was thinking about the situation of the vegetable field in the wine jar. It had been more than twenty hours since last night, and it was only half a month in the jar. It was time for the radish seeds to sprout and grow seedlings.
"I have to find a chance to go into the jar to take a look." Liu Zhuo thought to himself. While eating steamed buns, he looked at the scorching flames in front of him, and his expression seemed very focused.
"What are you thinking?" Tiezhu asked with his hand in front of Liu Zhuo's eyes.
"It's nothing. Zhuzi, I'll go to the toilet, you can eat it slowly." Liu Zhu took out two steamed buns and stuffed them into Tiezhu's hand, then carried a close-fitting bag and walked towards a forest in the distance.
"Then come back quickly." Tiezhu shouted behind him.
Away from the bonfire illuminated, it was pitch black when walking out. Liu Zhuo quickly stepped into a bush and took out a jar from his bag.
Putting the jar on the ground, Liu Zhuo got in very skillfully, and saw the green light flashing by. The next moment he was already outside the courtyard of the island in the altar.
It was still daytime in the jar, and the continuous raindrops were floating down from the mouth of the jar with light green. The raindrops fell on their faces, cool and cool. Liu Zhuo looked at the drizzle in front of him in surprise. He really didn't expect that it would rain in this jar. Isn't that the same as the outside world? What's the difference?
"No, the nest of bird eggs will be in trouble when it rains." Liu Zhuo's heart moved, and regardless of the rain wet his clothes, he quickly ran into the courtyard.
After entering the yard, he was stunned by the vitality of green in the vegetable garden. The half acre of radishes he planted had grown into green radish seedlings, and they grew very vigorously, which was very different from ordinary radish seedlings, at least they were much bigger.
What surprised Liu Zhuo even more was that the fire grass was peaceful in the drizzle, and the entire bird nest was vaguely emitting red light, causing all the raindrops to be isolated outside.
"This Fire Race is really a rare thing. No wonder the vermilion bird is used to make a nest."
Liu Zhuo ran to the front and observed it carefully. Seeing that there was no sign of the five vermilion bird eggs in the nest, he left it alone.
When he got up, he looked at the rabbit cage accidentally, but was shocked. The hare was lying on the cage dyingly, looking like he was about to return.
Liu Zhuo quickly opened the rabbit cage, but saw the hare coming alive like a corpse, jumping out of the cage and running out of the courtyard without a trace.
Liu Zhuo smiled and said, "Why did I forget that the time in the jar is different? When I come in later, the rabbit will definitely starve to death. This is also good. Let it find food outside and I will still have a way to catch it after it is fattened."
Next, Liu Zhuo did not go out immediately. He came to the vegetable field and began to pull out some radish seedlings one by one.
Because three seeds are placed in each hole, the radish seedlings that grow naturally have three, but the underground nutrients are only enough for one radish to grow, so the one with the best growth needs to be left, and the other two must be pulled out to leave the nutrients for the good growth.
Otherwise, if three radish seedlings are allowed to grow naturally, the final result will definitely not be able to survive.
While pulling the radish seedlings, Liu Zhuo was thinking in his heart: Planting these radish is actually similar to being a human being. If you should give up, you have to give up. If you hesitate, it will harm others and yourself.
After half an hour, Liu Zhuo pulled out the radish seedlings and cleaned up the newly grown weeds in the vegetable garden. Then he hurried to the wellhead and returned to the dark world outside.
After packing the jar, he returned to the camp with his bag. Although Liu Zhuo stayed on the island for half an hour, for the people outside, it was just a splash of shit, and no one would doubt it.
Sitting back to the bonfire, Tiezhu was chatting with several young men in the village, each of whom was looking forward to becoming an immortal and flying in the clouds.
Liu Zhuo did not comment and took out a copy of "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" and started to read it, but his heart was distracted. On the way, he heard Zhang Shun say that the Five Mountains Sect was extremely picky in taking disciples. Most of their people would hope to fail and be sent back to the village and be honest as mountain people for the rest of their lives.
It is said that cultivating immortals requires immortal fate, but what exactly is immortal fate? But no one can explain it clearly.
Liu Zhuo was not sure. He could only hope that his immortal fate would not be too bad. Otherwise, he would be sent back to the village in shame. Not only was his father embarrassed, but he had to accept fate's arrangements, take the imperial examination, and enter the official career.
Isn't it good to be an official?
For a mountain child, it is a great blessing.
But in Liu Zhuo's heart, he vaguely resisted these things. In his subconscious mind, he thought that he should go to Wuzhi Peak so that there was what he wanted.
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It was getting late at night and Liu Zhuo's book had been read. After the bonfire was extinguished, a group of teenagers returned to the carriage.
Tiezhu took out his quilt, and he and Liu Zhuo found a corner in the car. They tilted their heads and fell asleep in the quilt.
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Chapter completed!