my age of magic

Chapter 30 31. Valley Anecdote

The caravan has been walking along this winding and difficult mountain road. I can feel the surrounding terrain is getting higher and higher. I don't dare to look at the bottomless mountain stream beside the mountain road. High, people will have a sense of suffocating panic.

But I can look up to the peak of Qijun on the other side of the valley without any difficulty.

These gentle slopes that are close to flat roads can really kill anyone's patience.

In the vast journey, there is always the road with no end in sight, no fork in the road, and no people.

The surrounding mountains finally began to bare. A large amount of limestone was exposed, and even the tenacious moss-like weeds that could grow on the rock surface became rare, and the wild goats that could be seen before disappeared here.

It has been nine days since our group entered the mountains at the northern foot of the Pai Plateau. For me, who does not know where the end point will be, this feeling is not good, because the more I look forward to, the more hope I have, the more I wait. can become painful.

For the people in the caravan, this is life on the back of Thunder Rhino, and for me, this is my life too.

Every day, I would lie on Lei Tingxi's back, hold a roll of parchment and read hard. This is the best way for me to pass the time. Originally, I was only able to speak orcish language after such a long period of training. Practice and study, reading these animal texts no longer requires the explanation of the old Kuru.

From the comprehension of the general idea above with guessing and guessing, now I can read and recite freely at will. Sometimes when I encounter travel notes, I will share some wonderful jokes with Kurtz in the orc language. Although this child I don't like reading, but I am still very interested in stories like adventure diaries.

Every huge Thunder Rhino fills the mountain road that is only four or five meters wide. Now they are all crowded on this mountain road. The most troublesome thing every morning is actually going to the toilet. The adults all go to the edge of the cliff On the ground, they stood still and untied their trouser belts and urinated directly into the mountain stream. They could even do this with ease and whistling.

But I didn't dare, as long as I stood on the edge of the cliff, my legs would be as soft as noodles, so I found a clay pot with a crack that was about to be discarded, and secretly hid behind Lei Tingxi to solve my personal problems. In fact, for a child, this is not necessary at all, but I have been doing my best to maintain my ridiculous dignity.

The distance between me and Sister Guoguo is the distance of 67 thunder rhinos, which is a natural barrier that neither of us can overcome.

At a distance of more than a kilometer here, sometimes we can only stand on the high ground and wave to each other to be safe.

According to Uncle Fred, all members of the adventure group will be divided into several groups, and they will take turns to explore the road ahead. Sister Guoguo is no exception. I am safe, and I want to see if I am also safe. Such strong feelings continue to warm my heart these days and nights. I think this is more like family affection, and she is like my sister.

Uncle Fred said that this is a kind of psychological dependence, and orphans will long for this kind of emotion, and this kind of emotion is exactly what old Kuru couldn't give me.

It's not so much my sister, it's more like my lack of maternal love. This old Liumao even laughed at me for not having breastfeeding since I was a child, so I hugged someone's thigh and cried so shamelessly.

I angrily stood up and stared hysterically and said to him, tomorrow I will tell Singer not to betray you, a half-old man whose chest is almost buried in the loess.

Fred stood up angrily, and was about to slap me with a slap like a bear's paw. Kurz jumped to my side with a "bao" and clenched his fists and stared at Fred fiercely. With a fierce murderous aura, the spiky teeth were like a silent warning.

Every time such a war of words is the condiment of the trip, I know that even if Kuz doesn’t stop Uncle Fred, he won’t hit me, but every man has his own dignity, just like his own reverse scale, Touch it and get angry.

Walking between the mountain roads on the cliffs of this quiet and hopeless stone valley, you can always see the mountain stream at the bottom of the valley from time to time, which will involuntarily make people feel countless fears, irritability, anxiety, tension, depression, etc. Emotions, if they are always stuffed in people's hearts, once accumulated for a long time and burst out, it will collapse the last line of defense of the mind, and if they are released a little every day, they will feel better.

I finally found out the girl's name, or rather the name I gave her: Xiao Chai Niu, because I thought she was very thin, on the third day after the encounter with Smoked Rabbit Head.

But later I discovered that her white lotus root-like arms are still very sensual.

Even if I stand on tiptoe, the top of my head can only be level with her slightly protruding chest. Her slender figure is a bit too tall at such an age, which makes me mistake her for being thin.

She seldom speaks, sometimes she is more like a quiet cat, she will squat in the most inconspicuous corner when there are people, this is the most surprising thing to me, it seems that everyone is like Ignore her deliberately, when she is air, no one has ever felt her existence.

She is also a greedy cat, only when Kurtz hunted the mountain treasures, she would appear silently the next morning, her eyes that were too seductive stared at the food, and sometimes she would stick out her red tongue to eat food. Lick dripping grease.

Later, I finally realized that she was really a greedy cat, and it was not because she was hungry that she ran out to steal food.

Because not every morning, we can have delicious food. As we enter the canyon deeper and deeper, it becomes more and more difficult to hunt edible animals, and Xiaochai Niu comes here less and less.

I had complained to her the other day that we were never given white bread and wheat cakes in the caravan, and then I told her how delicious these wheat-baked pasta were.

Every morning after that, I suddenly found that there were two more baked brown wheat cakes on the side of my pillow, and sometimes it might even be two bowl-sized white breads, one for me and the other for me. Kurz's hush money.

There are no secrets between me and Kurtz, he is my brother, and I slice thin slices of white bread and spread it with dates and bacon and tomato slices to make a delicious sandwich that tastes so good. It's very tasty, this is the first time Kurz eats vegetable food with such relish.

People in the caravan will not be surprised why the two of us brothers can get all kinds of delicious food, because in private, some people will still take out their treasures and exchange them with the little orc Kuz for some orcs that they think are more delicious. The secret recipe, the fist-sized tomato was bought by Kurtz with half a smoked fish. Although Kurtz doesn't know what nutritional balance is, he pays special attention to what I say.

Little Chai Niu never seems to appear when Old Kuru is around, she always avoids Old Kuru deliberately, even if there is tempting food on my side, she can't hold back.It's just that whenever the old Kuru left for a moment, she would suddenly appear and take away her share of the bacon and tomato sandwich. I was thinking that it would be better with some cheese.

I always thought she was the maid or slave of a certain girl in the dance troupe, so I always tried my best to cover it up for her, lest she would be whipped if she was discovered.Kurtz thought that I, like Uncle Fred, had found a partner in the dance company, and he despised it.He squatted beside me, hooked my shoulders and complained to me: "You human beings are so rich in emotion, Jia, you know how to raise a woman at such a young age?"

I leaned back on the leather seat on Thunder Rhino's rear hip, and after popping the last bite of the sandwich into my mouth, I smiled and said nothing.In fact, what I want to say is that I just found someone of the same type as me, and I feel close, and I want to help each other within my ability, so that I won't be lonely.

In the end, I was still afraid of being alone, like knowing that we would be separated from Kuz after we arrived at the Gludin tribe. At that time, I felt like I was abandoned, and I thought I would be like rootless duckweed again. Wandering, I just want to hide in the corner shivering.

I will become extremely dependent on Guoguo, a female magician who is willing to take me in.

Therefore, I also have a feeling of sympathy for Xiao Chai Niu. She may be a little maid struggling to survive in the dance troupe, and I am a homeless person in this caravan.Fortunately, she seems to be doing well, at least she can eat delicious white bread every day, and I am also doing well, I have some people who are willing to take care of me, and my brother Kurz.

There is a lack of everything here. The thunder rhinoceros is no longer fed with grains. Now it only uses black beans and hay for maintenance. If this continues, the thunder rhinoceros will lose weight. In order to prevent the thunder rhinoceros from losing weight.

Kuz, Uncle Fred and I would scrape the moss from the crevices of the cliffs and rocks on the side of the mountain road before dark in the evening, and we could make do with half a barrel in one night. The entire caravan followed suit, and sometimes even two groups would quarrel over a rock crevice in a moss-prolific area.

Drinking water is also very scarce, not to mention being able to wash your face every day. Even the drinking water is collected from the ice and snow on the rock formations in the morning and put into iron buckets to melt slowly. This kind of water can be used for livestock, but people cannot drink it directly. ,Easy to get sick.

We all put this kind of water in a kettle and leave it quietly for a day and a night, then filter it with cotton cloth and boil it before drinking it. The taste is bitter and astringent. There is no way!The water from the back of the West Lake Grassland has long been drunk, and this kind of water is not open to supply!
There is also a shortage of fuel, and the temperature difference between day and night is too great. During the day, wearing a single coat and walking with Thunder Rhino will cause you to sweat, and sleeping in a fur coat at night will not be very warm, so those dry cow dung packed in sacks and A large amount of dead wood is consumed every day, and there is no place to replenish it. The word Sichuan is deeply engraved on the forehead of the butler of Leipas.

Old Kuru is calculating every day how long it will take to reach the transfer station ahead, but Thunder Rhinoceros can barely walk a hundred miles a day and refuses to take an extra step. Recently, he was found by the butler Leipas The caravan observed the terrain more and more times, and stayed longer and longer. When they came back, they didn’t tell us a word about the Yantie Railway. It's enough to be addicted twice. When he was resting on Lei Tingxi's back, I saw him hunched over with his back facing me and still sighed: "It's too hard, hey!"

(End of this chapter)