Chapter 194 The Art of Darts
Xu Boan sank into it and instantly saw the pouring rain.
Fortunately, the several pools I built with mortar have passed the initial setting period of the concrete mortar and can still be maintained.
It’s just that the ground in the courtyard of the earth building, which the villagers had flattened with their own leftover mortar, was hit by the heavy rain, and a layer of skin appeared. Some of the cement slurry was washed away, exposing the sand and gravel.
The original heavy rain fell to the ground, and turbid water appeared on the ground.
Water also fell into the sinks on the eaves, like an open faucet, continuously, impacting the circle of mortar under the eaves to the point where it was already out of shape.
An even piece of mortar that was not compacted in place was washed away and peeled off, and disappeared, revealing the original soil underground.
“Oh my God, this is Grandpa Mountain God’s God-Mending Clay. How could it be like this?”
“Maybe it’s because we kept this batch of God-Mending Clay for too long when we used it. , after all, things like mud have their best conditions for use.”
“Oh, what can I do? It’s hard to get the hard stone floor done.”
"What are you talking about? It's raining heavily. Isn't this a good thing? It's been dry for so long."
"A good thing is a good thing, but with the mountain god taking care of us, we won't be short of water." Ah, this hard-made hard stone floor is really a waste."
"You are really spineless. Grandpa Mountain God has helped us enough. We have to rely on our own efforts. There is nothing we can do. We all count on Grandpa Mountain God.”
“You said it nicely, but what about this hard rock ground, just watching it be washed away?”
People were talking at that time, I saw Li Kanshan and a few people rushing out of the earth building wearing raincoats and hats, holding a large piece of his own coarse cloth sheets in his hands.
He held a shovel-like tool in his hand and quickly started digging at the scattered mortar under the eaves of the courtyard.
"Young and old men, stop making noises. Follow the old village chief! We must dig a ditch quickly."
Someone shouted, and more Many people rushed out and joined the team working in the rain.
Soon, a calf-deep drainage channel was dug.
Because of the existence of drainage channels, the water flowing down from the eaves can no longer directly and strongly impact the concrete floor that has not yet completely solidified, and the damage to the ground has been greatly alleviated.
This time, Xu Boan just kept watching and did not rush in to help or anything.
Xu Bo'an has already secretly decided that unless it is a near-death situation, Xu Bo'an will try not to interfere too much with the situation in the bonsai world.
This matter of mortar loss is not worth mentioning in front of Xu Boan, so naturally he will not take any unnecessary action.
But fortunately, the actions of these villagers did not disappoint him.
Xu Boan couldn't help but nodded, expressing his satisfaction with the actions of these villagers.
In addition, Xu Boan once again saw the power of strength in numbers. If this was still the same situation when he first came to Kaoshan Village, not many people who went out to work today would be able to swing. The one who moves the shovel.
Xu Bo'an couldn't help but once again have the idea of finding ways to increase the number of residents here.
"Oh my God, you guys, come up and take a look, a flash flood has broken out."
A villager standing on the fourth floor of the earth building shouted.
Hearing this, all the little people hurriedly ran upstairs.
Xu Bo'an's vision changed and he saw the flash flood situation that the little man mentioned.
On the pebble flat between the two peaks in the distance, at this moment, a ball of yellow muddy water rushing like a tsunami rushed from top to bottom.
The momentum is a bit like the tide of the Qiantang River, or the rapids of the Hukou of the Yellow River.
Although in Xu Boan's eyes, the scene was shrunk many times, the sudden changes in the bonsai still shocked Xu Boan.
This place was actually a river!
Hey, what is that?
Xu Boan was fascinated by the river he was looking at. Suddenly, a cloth bundle in the river not far away caught Xu Boan's attention.
Xu Boan couldn't even notice or even see the small baggage that looked like sesame seeds or even banana seeds.
But when Xu Boan focused his attention on the river, the scene in the river suddenly became larger and clearer in Xu Boan's sight.
Ever since, Xu Boan saw the strange baggage at a glance.
Although the baggage was made of cloth, under the impact of the heavy rain, many stones were hit and tumbled left and right.
Only the baggage lay motionless in the river, and due to the impact of the rain, a little light inside was exposed.
It seems like the glow of metal?
Xu Boan immediately took out the baggage.
The thought of getting bigger was silently in his mind, and the next moment, the wet baggage suddenly grew bigger in Xu Boan's hands.
Xu Boan saw the burden getting bigger and bigger and hurriedly put it on the carpet aside.
The next moment, the small baggage had grown to the size of a crossbody bag, and then stopped.
Xu Boan looked down and saw that the bright thing in the baggage was actually a small dagger with a handle as wide as two fingers and as long as the palm of your hand!
It's a bit like the knife coins that people used to use before the ancient unified weights and measures.
But it is much more beautiful.
There is also a tail made of red thread wrapped around the back of the knife, which is particularly eye-catching.
These knives were neatly inserted into a thick curtain made of unknown animal skin. There were ropes reserved at both ends of the thick curtain, which seemed to be able to be tied around my waist. between.
Xu Boan casually picked up the thick curtain. Under the curtain was a book made of unknown animal skin.
As soon as Xu Boan saw the words above, he knew that he didn’t recognize them.
Opening the book, fortunately, it was full of drawn figures. After some exploration and guessing, Xu Boan discovered that this thing seemed to be a secret technique for practicing the art of darts.
Hmm! Dart technique?
Xu Bo'an couldn't help but think of Xiao Li's flying knife, his favorite in childhood.
This stuff is very good if you learn it well.
It is said to be a perfect example.
If I could master this skill, I would be able to become even more awesome.
Although Xu Bo'an had previously learned some fighting skills from the "Thirty-six Mountain-Running Techniques" in the Mountain God's inheritance, he had not mastered the long-range attack skills. Now that he has mastered the dart technique, he is quite complete.
Xu Bo'an thought very happily, but the incense wish in the sea of consciousness did not move.
Xu Boan knew that this was because he had not yet started.
The power of incense and wish can only enhance the skills and skills you have already mastered, but it will not have the effect of making you self-taught.
However, Xu Boan was not in a hurry. Although he did not recognize the words on the scroll, the little figures painted on it were easy to understand.
If that doesn’t work, I can ask Chen Shishi for advice on these unfamiliar words.
In the future, when your incense and wish power are rich, you must consume some to master the writing of the Jing Dynasty.
In this case, if I have any martial arts secrets in the future, I won’t have to go through so much trouble to beg my grandfather and grandma to trouble others.
After all, the fewer people who know about secrets, the better.
Xu Boan was happily thinking about the bright future here. Suddenly, there were waves of shouts coming from the mountain village. "Look, the floods passing by are spectacular."
“Oh my god, why do I feel like I’m going to suffer? This flood is so big, it’s about to spread to our side.”
“No, take people down to build a retaining wall. If the flood really happens, The floods are coming, and the food we stored on the first floor will suffer."
"Ah? I'm afraid it's too late. If we go down now, if the flood comes, everyone and the shovel will be destroyed. They can all be washed away by us.”
While these little people were chatting, the flood peak had already rushed over.
"Bang...boom!"
There was a loud noise, like waves crashing on the dam, and a powerful flood wave hit the earth building.
The wooden structure of the earth building even trembled under this huge impact. Many people staggered around because of their carelessness.
Xu Boan's eyelids jumped.
For the sake of convenience, I just placed the earth building on the ground without any reinforcement measures or considering the connection of the foundation.
A few more violent impacts will knock the earthen building upside down!
If the flood gets bigger, the earth building will have to be floated!
This cannot continue.
Seeing another flood coming, Xu Boan quickly picked up a small women's makeup mirror on the bedside table and inserted it into the position between the earth building and the flood river.
This should be Ouyang Najie's handy mirror. It is only half the size of a palm. It is placed in a bonsai, but it completely blocks the bend of the river, blocking the momentum of the flood peak.
The next moment, the sudden flood wave hit the mirror and bounced back into the river.
On the other hand, the back of the mirror happened to face the earth building, and was clearly seen by the little people in the earth building.
"Oh my God, look, what is that."
"It must be Grandpa Mountain God. Grandpa Mountain God has appeared. It is Grandpa Mountain God who has protected us."
"Grandpa Mountain God? So beautiful, that's Grandma Mountain God, right? Why do you keep calling me Grandpa Mountain God!"
"It's obviously Grandpa Mountain God. The voice I heard from Grandpa Mountain God is a man's voice."
"Seeing is believing, hearing is believing. Haven't you heard of this? Look at it. , that is obviously the appearance of a goddess."
"This...is really a woman, so beautiful, no wonder she is a fairy."
"It looks like this. She is even more beautiful than the legendary oiran in the Yihong Courtyard of Juxiang Pavilion."
"What nonsense are you talking about? How dare you compare the Mountain God Grandma with those mortals."
"No matter how beautiful the oiran is, she is just an ordinary person. Please stop talking nonsense."
Xu Bo'an was quite confused when he heard the voices of these little guys talking.
Looking down, I discovered the reason.
It turns out that the small makeup mirror in her hand was customized by Ouyang Najie using her own artistic photos as the background.
I turned the mirror to the side of the river, and the photo of Ouyang Najie on the north side came into view of these little people.
They took Ouyang Najie's appearance as that of a mountain god.
For a moment, Xu Boan couldn't laugh or cry.
Originally Xu Boan did not intend to explain, because in his opinion, this matter was a bit insignificant and there was no need to explain.
But as these little guys kept calling them "Mountain God Grandma", Xu Bo'an couldn't bear it anymore.
It’s so awkward.
This needs to be explained clearly. Your gender issue is not a trivial matter.
"Okay, don't make any noise. The woman in the mirror is not me. Don't talk nonsense."
As soon as Xu Bo'an's words came out, some people at first thought that Xu Bo'an was a man. The little people became arrogant again.
“Listen, listen, Grandpa Mountain God has spoken personally.”
“But what I said is right, this fairy must be Grandpa Mountain God’s fairy companion. Otherwise, how could Grandpa Mountain God have this fairy’s private things?”
In the eyes of people from the Da Jing Dynasty, a woman's own portrait was a very private thing.
"Well...it seems to make sense. I have also heard that the mountain god grandpas always have wives, and the two of them manage all the affairs together, and they are called the mountain god grandma."
Hearing this, Xu Boan did not deny it. Anyway, he and Ouyang Najie also had a physical relationship, so it was not an exaggeration to understand.
In a small house in the earth building, Chen Shishi, dressed in white, stood at the window, looking at the photo of Ouyang Najie in Noda in the distance with a lonely face, feeling a little lost for a moment.
Grandpa Mountain God, it turns out he has a wife!
Bah, bah, bah, what are you thinking about? How can you, an ordinary person, have such wild hopes?
Thinking of this, Chen Shishi knelt down on the ground with a look of shame, and knelt down several times in the direction of Ouyang Najie's photo.
"The mountain god's grandma is here. The little girl doesn't understand the general situation, which makes the mountain god's grandma laugh. I also hope that the mountain god's grandma will take care of herself."
Xu Bo'an noticed Chen Shishi's actions and words, but he had a look on his face. Confused.
What is Chen Shishi doing?
Where do you start talking about this?
Chen Shishi quickly closed the window after getting up, and Xu Bo'an didn't go to ask her. After all, Xu Bo'an didn't like gossip by nature.
Because the flash flood was still continuing, Xu Boan was not in a hurry to take out the small mirror and just inserted it into the soil in the river to temporarily help the earth building block the incoming flood.
Since there is no danger in the bonsai for the time being, Xu Boan's attention is focused on the scroll on the dart technique.
The little simple figure in the scroll sometimes bends his knees, sometimes stands astride, sometimes shakes his wrists, sometimes jumps up.
There is a small flying knife in his hand, which can be shot out quickly during various tricky movements.
Xu Bo'an saw a deck of playing cards not far away. Xu Bo'an used playing cards instead of flying knives to learn the essentials of the action, but he couldn't get what he wanted for a long time.
I tossed it around but couldn't find any feeling.
Although I can rely on my body's instinct to throw playing cards far away, I can't find any of the skillful feeling of hitting where I want as described in the book.
Is it possible that we have to try it with a real knife?
But this is Ouyang Najie's residence, and Xu Bo'an doesn't dare to mess around.
After thinking about it, Xu Boan temporarily put away the throwing knives and books, stuffed them into the bag again, then took them back to the mountain temple and put them away first.
Picking up the note left by Ouyang Najie again, Xu Boan was thinking a lot.
This night is like a dream, I don’t know when we will see each other again.
Ouyang Najie, just left like this?
2023 has passed like this, and I have gained a lot. I have written a book, described a world, and met lovely readers. In the new year, I wish everyone happiness. The author lives on the Loess Plateau, praying to the mountain god Tuzao Prince for blessings for everyone!
(End of this chapter)