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Chapter 4 Ah Huang's Ability

"Let me see, too." Before I could reach out, Su Junjie next to me had already captured the book. As soon as he opened a page, he threw the book on the ground, covered his nose and shouted: "Liu Xiaobao, what are you holding, so shameless!!"

"This book is thrown in my cowshed, and it's a rat that has urinated on it." Liu Xiaobao explained embarrassedly. His grandfather Liu Ermao used to be a god-god, and he preserved many books. During the storm in the 1970s, Liu Ermao was also criticized and controversial for promoting feudal superstition. The collection of books at home was burned by a group of young generals. I don't know how the remaining ones are left.

I didn't listen to the conversation between them, so I squatted and picked up the book. There was a line of traditional Chinese regular script written on the cover. With my level, I could barely recognize the word Tao.

When I came into contact with the book, the comfortable air flow came again, like a gossip, penetrated into my body. Although this breath was not as good as the bronze ware, it was more than Teacher Ma’s inkstone.

After absorbing the breath from the book, I subconsciously turned a page.

All of them are traditional Chinese characters, and there are many human figures in the book, which suddenly looks like acrobatics. I instinctively felt that this book had a great connection with myself, and I had the idea of ​​leaving it in my heart.

"What's so good about a broken book? You don't think it's too bad." Just as I was about to take a closer look, Su Junjie's voice sounded next to me.

"Oh, it's very shameful." At this time, I found that there were yellow-brown marks everywhere on the pages, which were obviously stains left by rat urine. After turning another page, there were two rat shit hidden inside.

When I opened it, the classmates around me laughed: "Liu Xiaobao, you are going to let our library eat rat shit and drink rat urine. Take the book back quickly, the teacher will definitely not accept it."

"I... I'm going back to look for it, and I'll see if there are any books." Liu Xiaobao walked out with the book in his arms.

Seeing him leave, I hesitated for a moment and followed again.

In a place outside the gate where there was no one, I called Liu Xiaobao: "Xiaobao, the teacher is coming soon. It's still time for you to go back now."

"What should I do?"

"Tell me this to the teacher. I'll get another one when I go back. Anyway, I'm close to home." After that, I handed over my villain's book.

"Then...then...no, you're a new book."

"It's okay, I'll leave it to the teacher anyway." I didn't have any say anything and stuffed the book into his hands.

"Thank you," Liu Xiaobao said gratefully.

"It's okay, by the way, why don't you fold a paper clip for me for your book?" I pretended to be unintentional when I left. When I said this, my face was a little blushing, for fear that he would not give it to me.

Liu Xiaobao agreed readily: "For you"

This made me feel a little ashamed, and I was in such a big circle for a book.

Putting aside the school building library, I held the ancient book in my hand, but my mind turned to the magic weapon of scissors in my mind. From bronze ware to inkstone, to ancient books, there have been three times.

Does the cultural relics contain something that can be absorbed by the scissors magic weapon? Will the scissors magic weapon be absorbed to a certain extent and can be taken out at any time like a golden cudgel?

I have to say that children have a rich imagination, and my guess is almost 80% close to the truth.

Interest is the best teacher. After getting this ancient book, I became crazy about it and wanted to see what was being said. However, all the books are traditional Chinese characters, so I, a fifth-grade student in elementary school, naturally didn’t know it.

It doesn’t matter if I don’t know each other, I also have a special magic weapon for primary school students—"Xinhua Dictionary".

To translate this book, I specially prepared a brand new homework book to record it. Every day before going to school, I would excerpt the previous paragraph and bring it to school.

On the podium, the Chinese teacher's voice was up and down: "Qianfo Mountain, Daming Lake, and Baotu Spring are the three major scenic spots in Jinan."

I was busy looking up the dictionary below: "Clear means nothing in the sky, and turbid means nothing in the earth. They are all because the clear and turbid do not give birth to all things. If people in the world seek the way of immortality, refine yin to yang, and refine mortals to become saints, they are all because of the turbidity. Movement arises from the tranquility, and clear turbid is the other name of the Tao. Those who study immortals can stick to the ultimate way, and all things will naturally return to it..."

When I got home, I put down my schoolbag and went into the house, holding the dictionary to continue reading.

Because of this, my mother praised me several times and said that I finally knew how to study hard now.

After half a month, I translated the first few pages of small regular script into simplified Chinese characters.

It turns out that the name of this book is "The Thirty-Six Techniques of Taoism", which was copied by a Taoist priest named Xuanyun during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. I don’t know what happened, and it spread to Grandpa Liu Xiaobao.

I have only understood these contents after so many days of hard work. As for the other things described in the book, even if they are all converted into simplified Chinese characters, they still cannot fully understand them. What are Yin Shen, Lan Sanzhu, Heart Fire, etc., these words are very novel to me and cannot be found in textbooks and cannot be found in dictionaries.

During this period, I was afraid that Liu Xiaobao would ask me for the ancient book, but he seemed to have completely forgotten about it. When we were playing together, we never heard him mention it.

I couldn't understand the "Thirty-Six Techniques of Taoist Cang", so I had to put down this book for the time being and switched my attention to the entrance examination. There were no sixth grades in the countryside in the 1990s. Students could go to junior high school after finishing the entrance examination after finishing the entrance examination.

There is still one month before the exam, and the teacher asked us to do sets of simulation test questions every now and then. During the simulation test, my math scores were still the same as my nephew's lanterns - as usual. However, my Chinese scores improved a lot, and many sentences I couldn't understand before became simple in my eyes. According to my guess, this is the credit for looking up the dictionary, and my efforts a few days ago were not in vain.

After the entrance examination was over, we students were considered to have graduated from elementary school. Of course, not many people were concerned about graduation. It really made us happy that we started summer vacation now and were able to play hard. This time we didn’t even have summer homework.

Me, Su Junjie and Su Yutao, are inseparable almost every day. Most families in rural areas feed scalpers, and what we have to do every day is to herd cattle.

In half a year, the weasel had completely put aside his guard against me. Sometimes when I reached out to touch its smooth fur, Ah Huang would not avoid it. Instead, he rubbed his head around, looking like he enjoyed it. Ah Huang was the name I named it based on the color of its fur, which was easy to understand.

As the summer vacation began, I found that Ah Huang became more and more sticky to me. Every day it would wait by the firewood and haystack at the entrance of the village. As long as I led the cow to the entrance of the village and shouted Ah Huang, it would immediately run forward.

My two best friends also knew that Ah Huang existed. Unlike adults’ taboos, they were more envious and were also very nice to Ah Huang and would feed him some snacks from time to time.

The job of grazing cattle is simple. Every day, we drove the cattle to the river beach. Then a few of us took out the eel hooks prepared by each and started fishing eels along the ditch. At this time, eels are not worth much. After we caught them, we mostly cooked fires on the river beach and roasted them. Because of this, we always bring some salt to herd cattle.

In addition to fishing for eels, you also need to catch fish and lobsters with net bags. If you are lucky, you can pick up turtle eggs.

At this time, we discovered the benefits of Ah Huang. It has a sharp nose and can often find some strange foods. For example, if you walk around the river beach, Ah Huang's two small claws were slashed in the sand nest and quickly dig out a pile of turtle eggs.

Or it crawled into the bushes, and soon it heard the clucking sound of pheasants coming from inside. We rushed over and saw Ah Huang holding the pheasant's head and pulling the pheasant out of the bushes.

The three of us took the pheasant, plucked the hairs and picked the firewood, and quickly roasted the bare pheasant on the fire. Although there were no other seasonings except salt, several people couldn't help but sniff the fragrance.

The pheasant meat was roasted, and I first tore a chicken leg and threw it to Ah Huang, and then divided it into three servings to eat with Su Junjie and the others.

Since Ah Huang started catching wild game, the lives of the three of us have become more and more colorful. Every day, cattle herding either grilled pheasants, roasted snake meat, or grilled fish.

Speaking of grilled fish, Ah Huang is also very good at catching fish in the river. Weasels can swim. We didn’t know this before. We didn’t expect that Ah Huang was very skilled in the first time he went down the river. In half an hour, he actually caught five crucian carp with chopsticks, which was much more efficient than us.

After half a month of contact, Ah Huang also recognized the existence of Su Junjie and Su Yutao. However, this little guy just recognized it and would not let them touch the fur. Even if they were fed with snacks, it would not work, which made the two very depressed.

In recent days, I was the only one left in the cattle trio. Su Junjie followed his parents to visit his grandma's house. Her grandma's house is in Hosokawa City, and it is two or three hundred miles away from us. It is not easy to go there, so he will stay for more than ten days. As for Su Yutao, his scalpers have just given birth to a calf and need to be kept in the yard for a while.

I am alone, and my life is very boring. Fortunately, Ah Huang is with me.

The sun was so fierce in the afternoon that I drove the old cow to the river beach, and I couldn't wait to lie under the shade of the trees to enjoy the cool air.

Ah Huang was very energetic and jumped into the river. Within two minutes, it poked its head out of the water, with its sharp claws and holding a large blackfish, weighing two or three pounds.

Seeing the big black fish that was still tossing on the ground, I hurriedly found some firewood to make a fire.

Before I could react, Ah Huang turned around and crawled into the river. This time, after a full stick of incense, he poked his head out again.

I thought I would catch another fish, but I didn't expect it to take out a porcelain jar and bare my teeth and show off at me.

It was still ten feet away from Ah Huang, and I felt a jubilant breath coming from the scissors magic weapon in my mind.

Porcelain jars are cultural relics!!

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