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Chapter 117 Autumn Water Country

Qiushui Kingdom has a vast territory and is an extremely powerful country among the southern countries.

Its land is vast and boundless, with dense mountains and rivers. There are two major plains in the east and north.

The plain is rich in fertile soil and produces a lot of grain. Therefore, many populous states in Qiushui are located on these two plains.

And in the south of Qiushui Country, it is a place where mountains gather.

The population there is sparse, and there are few heavy cities, which are not valued by the imperial court.Over time, the prefectures and counties here became the poorest and backward places in Qiushui Kingdom.

According to this division, the northern country is densely populated and rich, while the southern country is sparsely populated and barren.

If you drive into the Qiushui Nanguo, where the mountains are scattered, and continue southward for thousands of miles, passing through a mountainous area, you will see a desert that stretches for thousands of miles.

Because the desert is winding and winding, it is thousands of miles long, and it is difficult to see its head and tail. Therefore, it is also called the Snake Desert by the people of Qiushui.

Snake Desert is like a dividing line, dividing the mountains of Qiushui Nanguo horizontally.

This desert is extremely deep, and the citizens of Qiushui Kingdom in the north have never seen anyone who has successfully crossed the desert to the opposite side.

They only know that there is a vaster mountains and rivers on the opposite side of the desert, but who told the story, even the longest-lived wise man, has no way of knowing the reason.

For hundreds of years, those who tried to explore the Snake Desert would eventually get lost in the desert, be buried and swallowed by the wind and sand, and become skeletons.Those who escaped by chance were also deeply afraid of it, and did not dare to step into it again.

There are rumors among the people of Qiushui that the mountainous area south of Snake Desert is not actually the territory of Qiushui, but a mysterious place that the successive rulers of Qiushui forcibly included to expand their own territory.

Now if you look at the territory map of Qiushui Kingdom, you will see that on the map, on the large area south of Snake Desert, there are many unheard of mountains and rivers and peaks, not any cities, counties and towns.

And the closest inhabited place to Snake Desert is a border town called 'Shaling'.

Shaling Town is located in a remote place with a population of less than one thousand. It is bordered by mountains on one side and desert on the other.Looking down, the mountains, forests and deserts are yellow and green, which is quite gorgeous.

The residents in the town are all pioneers who moved from the north.

Since their ancestors settled here, they have lived for a long time and slowly multiplied.For hundreds of years, the residents here have lived a simple life by selling the fruits of seabuckthorn grass, a unique plant on the edge of the Snake Desert, and it has gone through more than ten generations.

this day.

Outside the entrance of Shaling Town, several children who had just finished school came out together, and walked to a woods outside the town one after another.

The forest is lush and verdant, about two miles long, next to the desert, and the children are playing while walking, as if they are going to play on the edge of the desert.

"Da Zhuang, your slingshot is so beautiful, let me play with it too."

Among the several children, one of them was a little shorter, a boy of about seven or eight years old, who was entangled with a thick-headed and fat man beside him, staring intently at the object in the other's hand with longing eyes.

The fat boy raised the slingshot in his hand high, shook his head, and refused:

"No, no, my father made it for me with his own hands! Little six, won't you let your father make one for you?"

"My father won't do it for me. He only knows how to drink and play mahjong. He hasn't been home for many days. Please feel sorry for me." Little Six said with a bitter face.

Da Zhuang turned his eyeballs, glanced secretly at the stick of sesame sugar that was faintly exposed in the other party's book bag, and pretended to be calm and said:

"Hmph, that won't work either. Unless, unless you exchange it with me for two sesame candies!"

"Ah! Da Zhuang is too dark, isn't he! I only play for a short while and want to exchange two of my sesame candies?" Little Six cried bitterly.

Da Zhuang immediately became anxious, and shouted at the top of his voice: "What's wrong with the two sesame candies! You have so many in your book bag, why don't you give me some?"

"Hush, keep your voice down, just give you two."

Little Six was afraid that the other children behind the two would hear that there were snacks in his bag, so he quickly covered Da Zhuang's big mouth with his hand.

"Bah, bah, bah! What a stinky smell!"

Da Zhuang almost vomited, hurriedly parted Little Six's dirty hands, and spit on the ground a few times.

Little Six scratched his head, and smiled awkwardly: "Hehehe, Da Zhuang, don't think too much, I just washed your hands."

This said, if Da Zhuang believes it, there will be ghosts.

He almost spit out all his saliva before he said angrily: "No change, no change, who knows if there is any dirt on your sesame candy stick, you can eat it slowly by yourself!"

"do not."

Little Six was about to cry for a moment, but with a cry of grief, he followed behind the other party with his head downcast.

talking room.

Several children finally passed through the woods and walked outside. They looked at the endless desert from a distance, and they were all very excited.

"Pick some sea-buckthorn fruits and go back later, and go to the shopkeeper to exchange for candy!" Da Zhuang said cheerfully.

At the same time, a child standing behind shouted at him:

"Da Zhuang, you have to protect us, you are the only one of us with weapons! If you encounter any monster, you have to fight it away!"

"Don't worry, looking at the whole desert, my slingshot is also a first-class sharp weapon! Whoever comes and who dies, you just pick the fruits, and don't forget to share some with me later."

Da Zhuang waved the slingshot in his hand, carrying a pocket of gravel, and patted his chest to assure his friends.

"Da Zhuang is so powerful, he will definitely be a warrior when he grows up!"

"That's right. From now on, we'll all hang out with Brother Zhuang, and we can't do without good fruit."

Amidst the bragging of several companions, Da Zhuang was full of ambition and gradually lost himself.

"That's that, I'll give you Xiaolu a hand first, let you know what a sharpshooter is!"

Da Zhuang turned his head to look at the children behind him, smiled, and then took out a small gravel from his pocket.

"Look, there's a little blue bird on that tree, watch how I knock it down!"

As Da Zhuang stretched out his hand and pointed far away, several children looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, they found a blue bird with gorgeous feathers on a tree not far from them.

The blue bird stood on the top of the tree, and did not respond to the noise of the children.

It just stood there quietly, staring into the depths of the desert with two spiritual eyes, as if observing something.

"Hey! That silly bird, take a bow from me!"

Here, Da Zhuang was already ready. Holding the slingshot in his hand, he pulled it hard, squinted one eye and aimed at the target, and shot the stone bullet out accurately.

Whoosh!
A sound of piercing the sky passed by, and the stone flew towards the blue bird on the treetop like an arrow.

Almost at the same time, the blue bird that was originally facing the desert seemed to sense something, and turned its head towards the direction of several children.

(End of this chapter)