destiny [ancient]

As the southernmost vassal state of the Xia Kingdom, the weather in the Southern Wilderness is always changing in summer. In the morning, there is still a light breeze, and at noon, it rains so heavily that it is impossible to see five feet away.

When going out, Ah Hui told him not to go due to the heavy rain today. As a priest of Nanhuang, he could always get the most correct prophecy.

Although Peacock believed it, he still refused.

After May is the southern wilderness flood season, the time when the Huai River floods most seriously. Although he is also one of the princes, Ah Hui has always been squeezed out by his brothers. There is no food to eat.

Flying over hundreds of miles of basins and hills, the peacock landed in a higher village. The people here were ragged and huddled in stone houses with thatched roofs. When they saw him fall on the ground, they rushed into the mud one by one. , holding a large plantain leaf to cover him from the rain.

"How is the water?" Peacock lowered his head and followed them into the house. There were leaks everywhere in the low room. He frowned slightly, "Can you keep it?"

The Huai River is high in the west and low in the east, flooding every year, and the arable land of the tribes in the Southern Wilderness is scarce. During the flood season, they must try their best to protect their arable land. If there is a slight difference, there will be no harvest.

"Three feet higher than last year, if the rain doesn't stop, it's hard to hold on." An old man with a club crutch looked sad, with deep wrinkles on his forehead, gray hair, and a smooth cane that had been soaked in the water for too long. Penicillium versicolor has grown on the bottom.

Peacock pondered for a while: "You are all relatives of Ah Hui, if it's really not possible, you should prepare to go up the mountain first."

"That's all there is to it." The old man looked at the earing rice not far away, tears in his eyes were about to flow down his cheeks, and said sadly, "It's all monsters who hate me for wantonly destroying my home. If it weren't for our young and strong guards The frontier, how can it not even protect this little harvest, the sky has no eyes, the sky has no eyes..."

Going up the mountain means abandoning the village and going up the mountain to avoid the water. The tribe would not give up if it hadn't been really helpless.

"That's right, but Ah Hui's fortune-telling yesterday, although the rain has been continuous this summer, it will be sunny for three hours tomorrow. You can prepare early, strengthen the dam, win or lose, three points of God's will, seven points of man's work." Peacock The impeccable smile.

The old man was overjoyed: "Very good! Very good! Thank you, great priest, for telling me. Did you hear me clearly? Hurry up and prepare stones, bamboos and rattans. As soon as the sun clears tomorrow, we will build the dam!"

"Then I'll go first." Peacock nodded.

"The envoy wait a moment." A twelve or thirteen-year-old girl walked out of the crowd. She held flowers in her hands, but her face was brighter than the flowers in her hands. There was no cloth on her body, but woven with softened straw Thinking about how she usually pays attention to her appearance, she said softly to the peacock, "I heard that the priest has been busy with things recently and is extremely tired. I specially picked tranquilizing flowers from Queshan Mountain. I hope the Lord will take Xiaonu's heart with you, Xiaonu." I must remember your kindness."

"Well, I will definitely bring it." The peacock accepted the bouquet of flowers, turned into a bird, flew across the sky, and disappeared into the rain.

The low thatched hut suddenly fell silent, and after a few breaths, the girl asked: "Grandfather, you know that the bird is a demon beast driven by the priest, why do you want to reprimand the demon in front of him? He went to say a few more words in front of the sacrifice, what should we do?"

"What do you know!" the old man scolded, "the priest has always loved this monster bird, if he doesn't let this monster bird know the difference between human and monster, maybe one day he will be proud of his favor and cause trouble for the priest."

"Grandfather, you think too much. What kind of gods and men are the priests? Our family is just slaves under the priests. If we offend the demon bird, we will be swallowed by it. Can the priests bring us back to life?"

"You are always right, so I want to advise you, don't be delusional, the status of Nanhuang priests is second only to the king, and we slaves can't climb up to it."

"That's not it. The mother who sacrificed back then was also a commoner, and she became a queen and concubine... Okay, let's not talk about granddaughter, I will go to quarry now, don't blow your beard."

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When the peacock flew back from the small tribe, it frowned slightly.

There are many mountains in the Southern Wilderness, and the cities are built along the mountains, especially in the capital city of Nea. The rainwater flows down the mountains and will not enter the house. But now, Ah Hui's residence is almost surrounded by water, and there must be someone again. trouble him.

Fortunately, there is an enchantment of Ah Hui's spells in the courtyard, and there is no rain. These small things should have no effect.

After entering the courtyard, he saw two children, a man and a woman, squatting under the eaves, looking at the two tortoise shells with engraved words on their faces.

"Where's your brother?" Peacock asked.

"It's in the back room." The little girl said with a sad face, and then said to the boy, "What should I do if I don't want to recite it?"

"Then do you want to copy a hundred times in the sand?" The boy asked back, "Will brother let us go? I still want to run!"

"Why don't children like to learn well nowadays?" Peacock sighed pretendingly, ignoring the two children's words, "The stupid bird who copied our answers is really embarrassing." "He is obviously scolded by his brother the most!" "No Can people be shameless?" and so on, and walked into the inner courtyard.

When he entered the room, Ji Hui was kneeling in the room and carving armor.

He was dressed in yellow, elegant and noble, with long black hair, tied with a golden crown, his lips were slightly pursed, and he was silent.

The outdoor wind and rain soaked in, lifted a strand of long hair on his forehead, revealing his face like a celestial being, carrying the fragrance of still water, clean and spotless, and the sharp carving knife jumped nimbly at his white fingertips like jade, Like a white deer jumping on the grass in the mountains, it briskly carved a standard map of mountains and rivers on the tortoise shell several feet wide.

Peacock looked at him silently. If Ji Hui hadn't picked up an egg, he might not have believed the person in front of him, but he was just a 17-year-old boy.

Is it the Tianxing Human Race?Thinking of those beast cubs of the Yaozu who couldn't enlighten their wisdom, and seeing the young man in front of him who had broken through the powerhouse of the sky when he was only seventeen, he smiled slightly, which meant a lot.

After a long time, after carving the last stroke, Ji Hui gently put down the carving knife, and then inspected the entire tortoise shell without raising her head, and said, "Ginger soup is warm on the stove, drink it while it's hot."

"Don't." Thinking of the pungent and bitter taste of ginger soup, Peacock Kiss stepped forward to circle his lover, and kept rubbing his cheek, "Let me hold you for a few moments, and the moisture will be completely removed, okay, okay?" ?”

"If you want to be presumptuous, let's talk about it at night." Ji Hui's expression remained unchanged, the two fingers of his right hand were bent, and he pinched the young man's delicate cheek with precision, pulling him off his body with all his strength.

"I listen to you, be gentle with your hand, it's going to swell."

After the frolicking, Peacock sat lazily beside him and began to report on his work: "Your fief is still a little bit far away from the waterline. Only a small tribe is more dangerous, but I have temporarily solidified it with demon power. In a while, There is no danger."

"Is there any trouble on the way?"

"Yes," the peacock conjured up a bouquet of flowers, a net of shells, three bags of dried fruit, and all kinds of bone pendants, agate carvings, woven gold hairbands, all bits and pieces, and put them on Ji Hui's table in an instant. The tortoise shells are full, "Today I have twice as many people as last time, 420 nine people, [-] men, and [-] women."

"Usually I teach you arithmetic and writing, and you struggle to resist, but when you calculate these trivial things, it is always clear." Ji Hui calmly stretched out her hand, "Bring it?"

"What?" Peacock pretended to be stupid.

Ji Hui didn't answer, but turned her clear eyes to look at the eaves outside the door.

"Let me sleep on the eaves at night, you are not afraid of loneliness." Peacock proudly took out a piece of well-polished bone armor, enough to write hundreds of words, "Here, do you like it?"

Ji Hui carefully placed the bone armor on the wooden frame in the corner of the room, and then said calmly: "Those people who admire are only asking for my appearance and identity, so why should you care about it?"

"Ah Hui, don't be so secretive about your confession, I can easily fail to hear it." The peacock covered his face shyly, but the peacock's tail behind him couldn't cover it, sending and receiving left and right like a folding fan, expressing that I liked it to death Say it again.

"Hmph." Ji Hui glanced at the lifeless peacock, and then said, "Tomorrow will be the end of the month, and it's good for you to be so confident when you test your writing and numeracy skills."

Peacock's smile froze immediately, and he immediately changed the topic: "By the way, the picture you carved on the tortoise shell seems to be your yellow picture of the Southern Wilderness?"