Chapter 328: Dragon and Tiger are new every day
Where the lower reaches of the Yangtze River enter the sea, the ocean tides meet the surging river water.
Under the support of sea water, four to five billion tons of sediment are deposited here every year, gradually forming a large alluvial plain.
There are more than forty cities on the entire plain, one of which was called Haiyang in the Qin Dynasty and Hailing in the Han Dynasty. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was used as the seat of state governance and was called Taizhou.
The Southern Tang Dynasty first surrendered to the Later Zhou Dynasty, and then to the Song Dynasty. He was not called the emperor, but the Lord of the Jiangnan Kingdom, and later surrendered completely. The whole process did not allow this plain to experience too many war turmoils.
Looking at today's world, this place is also one of the most densely populated places. There are more police officers in the yamen than in other places.
Ai Long is a small catcher in the Taizhou Yamen. He is nearly forty years old and has no chance of promotion. Children who are unfilial and commit petty theft.
In the past month, a big event has happened. Everyone in the yamen is often busy until it is dark before they have a chance to go home.
With the moon hanging in the sky, Ai Long hurriedly walked home. When he got to the door, he patted the door several times and shouted repeatedly before his wife came to open the door.
“Come back?”
The wife was very happy, but also complained a little, "You have been back so late recently. Seeing how tired you are, it means you are the most honest and you must have traveled the most..."
Ai Long shook his head: " In the past, you said this, but no one dares to be lazy and slippery recently, and there are many more diligent than me."
As he spoke, he took off a token from his waist. , put on the table.
The back of the token is rough and white, with a non-slip pattern and four faint seal characters. The front is dark and smooth, like ink jade.
If in the past, Ai Long would have had such an exquisite jade-like treasure in his hands, he would have definitely collected it carefully.
However, the main things they are busy with this month are, firstly, distributing such tokens, replenishing them for those who have not received them, and roughly teaching them how to use them. Secondly, they are patrolling everywhere to tell people not to seal these things up, and not to rob them. Buy and sell.
Because I have seen too many tokens, I can’t cherish them even if I want to. Moreover, this thing is quite sturdy, so it doesn’t matter if it gets a little bumped.
The wife brought a bowl of tea.
Ai Long took it and took a sip, frowning: "Why is it so bitter?"
He paid attention now and smelled it carefully, only to find that there was a smell in the whole room. The light herbal smell is not overpowering, but rather refreshing.
The wife smiled and said: "This is called herbal tea. You can try it by taking two more sips."
"Tea? You bought tea, and you can't see it in it."
Ai Long drank again. After a few sips, I didn't drink the tea or tea, but after drinking one bowl, the sweating and hot feeling on my body was really suppressed, and I felt much better.
After the tea was gone from the bowl, he tasted a faint sweet taste in his mouth, which was not entirely bitter.
"Hey! Don't tell me, it's interesting. It seems to taste better than the big bowls of tea sold outside."
The wife became proud: "Of course, this is made according to the recipe of the Eight Wise Kings."
Ai Long was shocked: "Eight Wise Kings? Which Eight Wise Kings?"
" There is no one else but the Eight Wise Kings.”
The wife took out her token and said, "Look, I saw it right here."
After the front of the token lights up, slide it twice and you will see a few white lines. Divide the screen into different squares, and each square has an active pattern inside.
Ai Long knew a lot of characters, but he couldn't see them all. What exactly was written next to the pattern.
But he knew that as long as he pressed the words for a while, the token would read out the words on its own.
My wife is obviously very proficient in it and does not need to rely on this word reading function at all. After reading the introduction, she clicked on one of the patterns.
The pattern is enlarged, occupying the entire screen, and a figure is revealed inside.
The sky is bright and the courtyard is deep.
There was a young man sitting on a wicker chair. He was wearing a bright yellow round-collar robe. He didn't have many gold and precious accessories on his body, but he had a sense of elegance and elegance in his movements.
The young man did not speak, but a rich and emotional voice came from the token.
"The afternoons of the Eight Wise Kings often start with a cup of herbal tea. Simple tea bags require only simple cooking..."
"Herbal tea has been in our country for hundreds of years. In the history of the Jin Dynasty, the immortal Ge Hong heard that there were evil spirits in Lingnan, which were causing miasma and poisoning all the people, so he went to Lingnan. , to make elixirs to eliminate demons, but demons are easy to eradicate, and obstructive qi is difficult to clear."
"So, Bao Gu Xianniang, the wife of the Immortal, created a moxibustion method that is easy for ordinary people to learn, and also collected chicken bone grass. Common medicinal materials such as Prunella vulgaris, Luo Han Guo, honeysuckle, etc. are made into herbal tea, which can clear away heat and reduce fire, and can avoid the harm of ordinary miasma. ”
Along with the strange man's voice, the Eight Wise Kings completed the entire process of making tea on the screen, tasted it carefully, and sat on a wicker chair to enjoy the coolness.
Finally, he stood up and walked towards the screen, raised the tea cup in his hand, and tapped the screen gently. The unfamiliar voice was replaced by a gentle voice, which seemed to be the Eight Wise Kings himself speaking.
“Being righteous, pure and comfortable.”
After reading it, Ai Long was stunned for a while.
Good, good, weird stuff.
"Is this really the Eight Wise Kings?"
The wife said, "Of course it is. Have you seen this sign? If there is this sign, it means it is really him."
My wife clicked twice, and the screen changed again.
The upper left corner is the portrait of the Eight Wise Kings, the right is the name introduction, and the bottom is all the square images of the Eight Wise Kings.
The morning of the Eight Wise Kings, the morning of the Eight Wise Kings, the noon of the Eight Wise Kings, the afternoon of the Eight Wise Kings, the supper of the Eight Wise Kings...
Ai Long held it in for a long time before he finally said: "Eight Wise Kings, are you eating at every twelve hours a day?"
The wife said: "It doesn't have to be the same day. "I guess it was taken."
Ai Long took it and flipped it several times. Before he could see the end, he couldn't help but said: "How long has it been since the token was issued? How many paragraphs have the Eight Wise Kings issued? Image? ”
Hey! Ai Long suddenly remembered a piece of gossip.
It is said that when the tokens were issued, there were many orders and they were distributed, and they were just encouraging the people to take pictures and the like.
But for those in the government and the public who have nothing to do, there is a sense of coercion, requiring them to take as many images as possible and upload them according to their respective strengths.
Ai Long didn't take it seriously at that time, but now he actually saw the image of the Eight Wise Kings.
Good guy, who was issuing the so-called distributed order in the first place?
The Eight Wise Kings are Pure Land Immortals. They are the emperor’s uncles and they have to obey orders?
Ai Long said: "Where did you learn this herbal tea from?"
"Yeah, I've never seen monk fruit or anything like that. Prunella vulgaris is everywhere. In the past, I only stewed it casually in times of famine. I didn't expect that it could be made into tea after it was processed."
My wife is very careful about her budget, "My aunts and I are thinking about setting up a small tea stall with this craft, maybe we can make some money."
< br>Ai Long shook his head: "Since you learned it from the token, and everyone has a token, wouldn't others be able to learn it?"
The wife was not discouraged: "Others may not necessarily see it. That video may not be as diligent as your mother-in-law."
Ailong nodded, took a closer look at his wife's phone, and clicked on another video.
"Hello fellow villagers, I am Fan Zhongyan, and this is the live broadcast of water control in the Yangtze River and Huaihe River."
Fan Zhongyan stood in the reeds, looking at the screen with novel eyes and high interest, and said, "I have always wanted to Let me tell you about the difficulty of water control and the need to maintain water quality..."
After listening to a few words, Ai Long felt a little bored and clicked on another video, it was still Fan Zhongyan, but the content was completely different .
“Ahead is Lu Fang, the sky-drilling rat who ranks first among the five martyrs of Xiankong Island. Yuan Wai Lu, let us thank Yuan Wai Lu for his efforts in opening this trench today.”
In the image, a figure holding a purple-gold sword was seen rising across the sky, blasting the rocky shoal in front of it into pieces, opening a road for ships to pass.
In the rocky beach, there are pythons as thick as buckets flying into the air, with bloody red light all over their bodies.
Lu Fang only fought it for two rounds, and he used three swords in succession, breaking scales, breaking bones, and splitting the skull.
Ai Long's eyes lit up: "What a powerful sword skill. Although I can't see it clearly, just these few shadows..."
"Okay, okay, take it yourself Look at the token to see these people who are fighting and killing. I heard that there is a martial arts hall run by Marshal Di Qing, the king of martial arts. You should look for that one. "
My wife grabbed her token back.
Ai Long was reluctant to leave and quickly picked up his token.
During these days, he was running around outside, had a little free time, and was planning to have a drink with his brothers, but he had no chance to play with the token. Tonight had completely piqued his interest.
However, he opened his token and after swiping it for a while, he saw a familiar face. It was the county magistrate who he saw every day in the yamen.
Whether it is the Eight Sages or Fan Zhongyan, when they upload these images, they not only upload them in large quantities, but they also seem to enjoy it, and they like to share it with the people opposite the token.
And the gentlemen from these prefectures and counties are a bit racking their brains and reluctant.
Ai Long's face was serious, and he felt a little excited for no reason.
Okay, I love seeing this.
Unknowingly, two hours passed. When Ai Long was watching happily, a prompt suddenly popped up on the screen, it was late at night and it was recommended to go to sleep.
“That’s right.”
Ai Long suddenly remembered something, "How come you didn't see the child when you came back today?"
My wife said: "I went to bed long ago."
Ai Long was stunned: "You went to bed so early, are you sick?"
“Bah, you don’t have a good word to say.”
Wife Putting down the token, he poured himself a bowl of herbal tea, prepared to drink it and go to bed, and said, "Didn't you say, click on the small icon in the upper right corner and drag it down, a new interface will pop up, then click on the new interface In the last column, you can see the detailed function introduction. ”
"Today, my child read all the detailed function introductions and discovered new uses. He said he could play in dreams and taught it to me. We will try it later."
The couple got on the bed. His wife began to teach Ailong.
In fact, it is very simple. Click on an interface in the token, and then rub your dry hands quickly for more than thirty times. Take advantage of this time to trace the zigzag lines on the token, and then lie down. Just cover the token with both hands and press it on your heart.
Ordinary people can also control the token with the touch of their fingers, because the settings inside the token can induce each other with the original weak current of the human body.
After drying your hands and rubbing them together at high speed, the current in the human body is briefly enhanced. The lines on the token are exactly a spell, used to open the game dream constructed by the Five Thunder Tower signals.
After the token is placed on the heart, it relies on every heartbeat and the subtle fluctuations of the human body's magnetic field to ensure a stable connection.
As soon as Ai Long lay down, he felt that he was in darkness, with a huge box suspended in front of him.
“Low-level Zombie Combat”, “Kunlun Ski Racing”, “Temple Rush”, “Big Fish Eat Small Fish”, “Gold Miner”, “Chess”, “Pot Toss”…
The word game was first seen in "Historical Records: Biography of Laozi and Han Fei". Go, chess, and archery competitions are the most classic game methods.
Ai Long originally thought that the so-called game dreams were nothing more than those few types, but who knew that at a glance, he was dazzled.
After hesitating for a moment, he chose zombie combat.
It’s a dream anyway, so choose something thrilling and curious. Even if you wake up with a fright, it’s worth it.
"A fellow player has been detected nearby. The game is in progress. Do you want to form a team?"
Ai Long saw the avatar opposite him in his consciousness. It was not a human face, just a knife.
But he recognized it at a glance. It was the small wooden knife he gave to his daughter.
Ai Long's daughter is named Ai Hu. When her wife was pregnant, she wanted to have a son, so she gave her such a name.
However, after my daughter was born, she had been wild since she was a child and had a strong streak. The name seemed suitable, so she didn’t change it.
Under Ai Hu's avatar, the word "agree" appeared. Ai Long thought about it and clicked "agree".
The next moment, his body seemed to fall down and he appeared on a vast green grassland.
"Dad, you are here!" "Uncle Albert!" "Little Dragon!"
There were actually more than twenty people on the grass, all from the village, mostly children.
Ai Long looked around and didn't see his wife. Maybe he went to another game.
But he really didn’t expect that so many children would dare to choose this game with zombies. Maybe it was his daughter who fanned the flames and instigated it.
As for those uncles and aunts, they must all be here to take care of their children.
However, Ai Long soon discovered that those uncles and aunts seemed to be more busy with work than his own children.
Behind the grassland are several wooden houses, and in front is a large area of strange-shaped plants.
The sky is filled with introductions about this game. After staring for a while, you can hear a strange voice explaining in your ears.
It turns out that in this game, people cannot fight zombies directly, they must use fairy creatures.
The fairy comes from a tree. If you water the tree with water from the river behind it, you can get various seeds on the tree. Plant the seeds outside the fence and continue watering, and it will grow rapidly. , has various spells to fight against zombies.
If the zombies break through the fence, the place where the fairy plants are planted will be moved back. People can hide in the wooden house at most. But if the wooden house also starts to be destroyed, it means failure and everyone will leave the game.
Now everyone is busy carrying water, but the objects of watering are different.
Someone is in a hurry to water that yellow winter melon-like fairy. With just three buckets of water, the seeds will expand into a thick wall.
Some people are in a hurry to water the red spiky fairy. It is said that when it grows up, it will breathe fire on the zombies.
Ai Hu has planted the most fairy creatures.
A few years ago, many people in the village worshiped Namo Longevity and Bright Buddha, but a strange man in black came. He gave free money to children, told stories every day, and asked them to recite Namo Confucian Boy Bodhisattva.
Ai Hu was attracted by that weird man and taught him martial arts steps for a while. It is said that he will come back to take disciples in the future, but he has not come back yet and he doesn't know where he went.
Over the past few years, Ai Hu has been practicing on his own, and his body skills have become more slippery. He never thought that this thing could be useful in this so-called "game" that is like a dream.
As soon as Ai Long tried to carry a few buckets of water, he witnessed a zombie attack.
All of the zombies were shriveled and swaying, and their movements were slow, but their facial features were particularly terrifying, with two protruding eyes, jagged teeth, and green skin.
The fairies cast various spells and attack zombies, and the zombies will also attack the fairies.
Once the number of fairies in the field decreases, or the zombies are defeated, and there is space, everyone must quickly replant and water the fields.
It was supposed to be heavy, tiring, and frightening work, but seeing the zombies being knocked down continuously, everyone felt a sense of joy while being frightened.
It was a dream after all, they didn’t have to worry about spraining their hands and feet, they worked harder and harder.
After losing one round, they played another round.
Until the words in the sky changed and the voice also gave a prompt, it was almost dawn and I exited the dream.
The cock crows three times, and the sky announces the dawn.
Ai Long opened his eyes, and his first reaction was to touch his token.
My wife has also woken up, and the two of them talked about what happened in their dreams and prepared breakfast.
Ai Long washed his face and suddenly realized that he didn't feel tired after working in his dream for so long. He felt better than when he usually had nightmares.
Ai Hu also got up and walked to the main room. The father and daughter looked at each other and smiled. They talked a lot in their dreams, but they had nothing to say in the morning.
Ai Long quickly raised his face again and told her to wash up quickly so that she could go to private school.
Half an hour later, Ai Long wandered to the yamen gate. Looking at the majestic yamen, he unexpectedly remembered the image of the county magistrate in embarrassment he saw yesterday, and his palms subconsciously touched his own. token.
It has been almost a month.
Ai Long felt deeply today that these tokens might bring about unimaginable changes.
And those changes will come faster than expected.
"Ahem!"
Ai Long patted his face and put on a respectful and honest smile.
If you really enter the yamen, you should be more honest and give yourself enough face.
Well, after I go back, I will secretly watch more videos of the county gentlemen to make up for it.
(End of this chapter)