Chapter 63 Chapter 1: Battle Clouds Faintly Visible

The continuous drizzle quietly fell on the streets of Linzi in the afternoon. When it rains, it is always easy to evoke boredom, and it also affects the business of hawkers and merchants on the street. The crowd thinned out, and the laughter and cries became distant and blurred. Linzi, a giant city in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty that used to be full of traffic and crowded around its shoulders, now looks like a listless young man with a faint gloomy look, but if he insists on why he is depressed, he may not be able to explain it. The rain falls from the sky without sleep, and it sprinkles on everyone accurately, regardless of high or low, rich or poor.

Sprinkle it on the luxurious court roof tiles of Duke Xi of Qi in the west of the city. Sprinkled in the gutters in the alleys. Sprinkled on a poking mouse. Sprinkled in the hearts of girls who miss their lovers. In the end, it was also sprinkled on the chariots and armor of the soldiers in the east of the city. On the military barracks square in the east of the city, thousands of fully armed soldiers stood upright silently like giant heads lying still. The rain dripped quietly from their helmets, foreheads, and nose tips, but no one reached out to wipe it. The commander of the army stood on the chariot with a gloomy face, looking up at the rain in the sky, but unconsciously "clang clang clang clang" flicked the bronze sword with him with a solemn golden and iron sound.

In the steaming water vapor, the figure of the army was a little blurred. But from that blur, there was a helpless breath of death. The same drizzle is also flying in every corner of the city. And many women in the city, seeing the endless rain falling from the sky that day, have already begun to hold needles and threads, and mend Zheng's clothes that are about to smell of sweat and blood with bitter faces. "So, is it for real now?" In the corridor of the other courtyard, Yi Yangjiu scratched his head in boredom, and said loudly: "Are we Qihou really going to fight Ji Guo? "

"Army has been coming and going on the street for several days. It should be for real, right?" The vertical mink, who loves to play with animals, shrugged while running along the long fur of a big dog at hand, "I heard that the The seventy cities in the city have also brought food and grass, and they will probably send troops in a few days." "Let them send troops!" Yi Ya at the side didn't hold the spatula in his hand, but was holding a pot of sweet potatoes and peeling them skillfully. He didn't live on the sweet potatoes. Bite lightly, "Anyway, it's not up to little people like us to fight wars."

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there were often battles between feudal states and feudal states, but in the early Eastern Zhou Dynasty, because of the patriarchal system, only the nobles could send troops to fight, but ordinary people could not participate in the war. Wars are dangerous, but under the feudal system of class, the ordinary people in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty did not have to go abroad and risk their lives in the wilderness. Yi Yangjiu watched Yi Ya's action of peeling the yam with cold eyes, feeling bored in his heart that he couldn't go out for a walk because of the rain, and after being bored for a long time, he naturally wanted to find fault with others.

"Hey! Fatty!" He glared at Yi Ya and shouted loudly. Yi Ya glanced at him indifferently, but ignored him, just peeling the yam in his hand. And still the same as before, every time you peel a potato, you have to take a bite. Seeing his lazy appearance, Yi Yangjiu felt even more angry, and raised his voice again. "Hey! Fatty, didn't you hear me?" "It's not like you have ringworm sores and scars on your ears," Yi Ya said with a smile, "How could you not hear me? What should I call your father?" Yi Yangjiu snorted angrily. "Nothing, I forgot."

Yi Ya shook his head, smiled good-naturedly, ignored him, and turned his head away, concentrating on peeling the yam in his hand. After a while, Yi Yangjiu couldn't help but said loudly again: "Hey! Fatty, you are really dirty!" "Why did I mess with you? How dirty are you?" Yi Ya glared at him, "I've been peeling the yams by myself, so what's bothering you?" "This yam is for people to eat, isn't it?" Yi Yangjiu walked over angrily and picked up one. "You eat something for people, but you have to take a bite after peeling it, so that people will eat your saliva?"

Shu Diao and Kaifang watched Yiyang Jiujing's troubles with Yi Ya with great interest, and couldn't help secretly amused, but Yi Ya had to take a bite every time he peeled a potato, the two of them also noticed, Also wondering what his answer was. "That's right! Fatty," Kai Fang said expressionlessly, "Although the food you cook is still edible, but it's not your son, so asking them to eat your saliva is a bit too much, isn't it?" Yi Ya easily threw away the sweet potato in his hand, clapped his palms, and stood up. "Xiao Jiu, there is something I ask you to do, do you dare?"

Yi Yangjiu's eyes widened, and he said angrily, "Of course I dare, when will you see something I dare not do?" "Very well, then you are just like me..." Yi Ya bent down and took out three yams from the basket, "Peel the skin of these yams for me with a knife..." Before he could finish speaking, Yi Yangjiu grabbed the three yams and picked up the peeling knife. "What's so difficult?" He smiled disdainfully, his hands were moving very quickly, and he had already started to peel the skin, "Don't think that you are the only one who can cook. Maybe I'm a little bit worse than you when it comes to cooking, but This kind of trifling little... Huh?"

Standing beside him, Shu Diao and Kai Fang also opened their eyes wide, with curious expressions on their faces. But the fat man Yi Ya stood aside leisurely, showing an intriguing smile. After the potato was peeled, it was sticky and slippery in the hand, which was not a big deal, but after peeling it a few times, Yi Yangjiu felt a strange itchy feeling on his hand. With the peeling action, that weird itchy feeling seemed to be tangible, and began to chew and bite his hand. It's not an exaggeration to say it's biting, the itchy feeling is like a bug crawling on the hand, which makes people's hair stand on end.

Moreover, it is absolutely true, Yi Yangjiu saw goosebumps springing up like bamboo shoots after the rain, as if they could hear the sound, they popped out one after another. With a loud cry of "Chi", Yi Yangjiu instinctively threw the half-shaved mountain yu into the air, his hand was sticky, but the itchy feeling became more and more serious. "Fat... fat man! You fat man!" He yelled angrily, "What did you use to harm me?" The potato thrown by him drew an arc in the air, Yi Ya grinned, and took the potato in his hand. Compared with Yi Yangjiu's anxious and violent itching, Yi Ya's hands were also stained with the sticky potato juice, but he seemed to be fine, and there was no movement. Kai Fang and Shu Diao watched Yi Yang Jiu jumping up and down in dumbfounded, they kept putting their hands on the ground and rubbing them again and again, but they still couldn't get rid of the itchy feeling. After arguing like this for a while, Yi Ya walked to the basket shaking his head, took out a sweet potato with skin, and put it in front of Yi Yangjiu. "Bite it!" Yiyang Jiuzheng was disturbed by the itching on his hands, and when he saw the skinned potato, he opened his mouth and bit it without having time to think about it. The skin of the sweet potato is a bit bitter and has a bit of earthy taste, I don't know whether it was by accident or on purpose, Yi Ya even picked a big one, at this moment Yi Yangjiu bit it, his mouth was wide open, his appearance changed Hilarious and funny. Although biting the big potato, Yi Xuejiu still made a vague sound. "You...you fat man...you're here to play tricks on me again..." Yi Ya smiled lightly and said, "Am I playing tricks on you? It's hard to be a good person." He gently put down the half-peeled potato in his hand, wiped the sticky juice on his hand, "Where's your hand? Does it itch?" Yi Yangjiu was stunned for a moment, only to realize that after biting the big potato with skin, the itchy feeling on his hand was really relieved a lot. He opened his mouth wide open in a daze, still not daring to let go of the potato, for fear that if one leaves his mouth, the itchy feeling will come back again. Yi Ya watched him open his mouth wide, with a distorted look of vigilance and fear on his face, and smiled very happily. After a long while, he reached out and knocked out the potato that Yi Yang Jiu Rizhong was biting with a "bo". Yi Yangjiu closed his chin, looked at the sticky appearance of dust and potato juice on his hands with lingering fear, and asked in a daze: "What's going on here? You damned!" Did the fat man drug me?" Yi Ya hehe awarded the prize. "It's not wrong to say that you are uneducated! Haven't you heard of 'Sweet potatoes are good to bite'? When you peel taro skin, you will have such an itchy feeling. Anyone who has cooked taro dishes will know it. There is such a thing." "So every time you peel a potato, you have to take a bite. That's the intention. Once you take a bite, it won't itch?" Kaifang asked curiously, "When you give Xiaojiu the itching, let him bite it." A bite of sweet potato, what kind of reasoning is that?" "If it dares to bite you, then you should bite it!" Yi Ya said with a smile: "One thing for one thing, one reward for another, isn't this the simplest truth?" He carried the basket of yams and walked away. In front of Kaifang and Shu Diao in the past, "Do you want to try the two masters?" Kai Fang's complexion changed slightly, and he took a step back. The tragic scene of Yi Yang Jiu when itching just now is still fresh in his mind, so of course he is not sensitive to this errand. Yi Ya laughed out loud, and when he was about to scare Shu Diao with the past, his back suddenly tightened, and it was Yi Yangjiu who wiped all the dusty taro juice on Yi Ya's fat buttocks. "Thank you so much," Yi Yangjiu showed a grim expression on purpose, "It bites me, and I'll wipe your fat ass." Yi Ya yelled, turned his head flushed red, and grabbed Yi Yangjiu as if he was going to hit him, but Shu Diao pretended to come over to persuade him, but he winked with Yi Yangjiu, and turned the fat man down They fell to the ground, laughing and rolling Yi Ya to the ground, the three of them were like children again, lying on the wet floor laughing loudly. A few people have played this kind of game for a few times since they were young, and they still enjoy it until they are almost twenty years old. Kaifang on the side showed a faint smile, but he didn't come over to wrestle with them, but just looked at the endless rain and became a little dazed. This young man from the family of Wei with a mysterious background has become more silent recently, as if there is a deep unsolved mystery in his heart, and his expression reveals a melancholy beyond his age. Yi Yangjiu and the other three scuffled for a while, their bodies were covered with mud and dust, then they got up laughingly, sat beside Kai Fang, and watched the misty rainy season of Qi State together with him. And amidst the sound of the rain, the shouts and shouts of the soldiers in the East City could still be faintly heard as they practiced. And after several people sat down on the railing of the corridor, they realized that their primordial spirits had walked into the rain outside for some reason. As if absorbing water vapor, Yiyangjiu's green plant spirit "Luoye" happily staggered on the rainy ground, while Yi Ya's orange-yellow spirit "Paoren" stood dazedly on a tree A beautiful yellow light glowed from his body.The green primordial spirit "Wanwu" of the vertical sable is the image of a tall and thin woman. Compared with the first appearance, the color of "her" has become brighter. It was originally a dull blue-blue, but now it is somewhat close to the color of the deep sea. Kaifang's prophesied primordial spirit "Jieyou" has not changed much in appearance, and is also the quietest. At this moment, it is floating lightly in the rain, with an indifferent expression, which is quite the same as Kaifang's expression. The four of them froze for a while, then Yi Yangjiu sneered suddenly, and said, "Speaking of Yuanshen, I think Fatty, you seem to be smarter recently, what kind of potato bites you, you bite it, it's amazing , and that day when you said "cooking supreme", the nonsense you said really made sense, even the people in the King's Palace of Qi were stunned by you, and just nodded!" He smiled and said: "You How did you become so clever all of a sudden? Did your fat soul teach you?" After hearing what he said, Kaifang and Shu Diao also nodded, expressing their agreement with him. "I think so too," Shu Diao said, "Fatty used to be the most shy man, he would stutter for a long time even when talking to the old lady sweeping the street. That day I saw you talking so extravagantly, and it scared me too!" Yi Ya tilted his head and thought about it seriously. "Hey! It seems to be true!" He scratched his head in doubt, "I also feel that when cooking, my mind seems to be much clearer, and many strange cooking methods naturally appear in my mind, as if from It seems that I learned it a long time ago. It seems that this weird method of biting a potato and keeping my hands from itching is something I knew naturally in my mind. Moreover, I have been taught by Senior Zisi to communicate with the 'pao people' From that time on, it became more apparent.” Kai Fang was silent for a while, and then asked quietly: "So, will your primordial spirit 'Pao Ren' talk to you? Is there a Dharma connection between you and it?" Yi Ya thought for a moment, then shook his head. "I don't think so. Then again, I've never heard anything said by the 'Pao Ren'. It's just a very faint feeling. I may know what it wants to say to me, or I may pay attention to it. I wanted to ask it to do something for me, but it didn't say anything obvious to me." Kai Fang nodded, then turned to ask Yi Yang Jiu. "What about you? Does your 'radish leaf' talk to you?" "Should...should be counted?" Yi Yangjiu frowned and said: "Like its name, it told me when I saw it for the first time, but it didn't talk much, and It doesn’t necessarily speak clearly, sometimes I think it is like a child, slurring its words, and can’t even hear what it wants to say.” Before Kaifang could ask, Shu Diao smiled and said: "What about my 'everything'! It should be able to talk, right? Since Senior Sangyang pointed it out, I have become more connected with it, but I also understand it in my heart. , what is really good at present is just the matter of communicating with animals, if you want to really be able to 'serve wood and stone', maybe you have to practice for a while?" Kai Fang smiled slightly and stopped talking.Originally, the other three people thought that he would start discussing the advancement of his soul, but the mysterious and silent boy didn't speak any more, just quietly looking at the rainy sky. Although a few of them secretly murmured in their hearts, but because they grew up with Kai Fang, they knew that he had such a mysterious personality, after a while, they didn't take this matter to heart. "However, I have been following the instructions of senior Zisi, and practice the techniques of Yuanshen with the 'Pao Ren' every day." Yi Ya smiled carelessly, "Although I don't know how to turn unpalatable things into let What's the use of what people like to eat, but it's still fun to play with." Hearing what he said, Yi Yangjiu, Kai Fang and Shu Diao couldn't help but turned their heads and stared at the yellow Pao Ren. That day in the forest outside the Qi State, the "Pao Ren" used its unique ability to cook a piece of hard-to-eat ordinary leaves into a delicacy that made Yiyangjiu and others burst into tears. That kind of experience is interesting. , but when I think about it on a deeper level, I can't help but feel a little horrified. "You primordial spirit! I really don't dare to offend you!" Yi Yangjiu smiled at Yi Ya: "Otherwise, one day you will dislike me and turn my legs into my favorite food. Am I going to eat my own feet and become disabled for the rest of my life?" This sentence was originally a joke, but after Yiyang Jiuyi opened his mouth and thought about it, he couldn't help showing a look of shock.Kaifang and Shu Diao opened their eyes wide, imagining a person drooling and eating their own limbs, and couldn't help laughing suddenly. "Very good," the fat man said with a smile, "Finally you figured out the usefulness of me as a 'cheater', and I'll take credit for you. If I want to kill you someday, I promise I won't let you go!" Eat your hands and feet, and I will give you a clean knife!" While talking, I also felt that such a topic was too unbelievable, so I couldn't help laughing. With the friendship they grew up with, how could he kill Yiyangjiu? Yi Yangjiu was slightly taken aback, although there was a slight ominous feeling in his heart, but that feeling was only for a moment, and it was washed away with the rain and joyful laughter in a short time. The years of youth are nothing more than this, no matter what kind of troubles and troubles there are in the heart, they always disappear for a while. Even if the sky falls, as long as you don't smash your head, there will always be someone taller than you to support it. Isn't everyone's teenage years also so carefree and carefree, without hesitation? I just don't know why, amidst the uproar of people laughing and talking, the light of Kai Wanshen "Jie You" suddenly dimmed in the rain. Yuanshen "Jie You" was originally a gray old man, but after this dimming, his appearance became even more gray and lifeless. However, Yiyangjiu's primordial spirit "Luo Ye" suddenly slowed down for some reason, looking cautiously at Huang Chengcheng's primordial spirit "Pao Ren" beside him.And that fat yellow man's primordial spirit always had a good-natured grin, but at this moment its smile had disappeared, replaced by a ferocious look that was almost cruel. The primordial spirit "Wanwu" of the vertical sable was originally standing in front of Pao Ren, but at this moment it flashed its figure and quietly "floated" behind Pao Ren, as if it did not want to let this yellow and fat man no matter what. Yuanshen stood behind it. The subtle hostility of the primordial spirits did not attract the attention of Yiyangjiu and the others. The four teenagers chatted under the corridor on a rainy day, and it didn't take long for them to forget the battle clouds that were densely covering Linzi City.