Between mountains and seas

Chapter 18

A thick book appeared on the computer screen, with four large characters in italics: Illustrated Book of Foreign Objects.Shao Jingxing touched the mouse, and the cover opened automatically, revealing a bare ground.

What is this?Just as Shao Jingxing was surprised, he saw a little green on the dark brown surface, and a little bud emerged from the soil, swaying in the wind and growing rapidly, and soon grew into a very handsome looking grass.However, as it grows up, the pale golden light from the stems and leaves becomes brighter and brighter, which can almost match a 15-watt light bulb.Beside it, there are some black shadows, who seem to be walking upright and bipedal, but the limbs seem to be a bit awkward, either the arms are too long, or the feet are too big, anyway, it doesn't feel like a human being .

Shao Jingxing almost lay down on the screen, trying to guess what it was, but the swaying grass had stopped shaking, changing from a moving picture to a still picture, and a description appeared below: Grass with bright stems, the night is like a golden lamp, The branches are broken into torches, and the shape of ghosts can be seen. It is also known as Dongming grass. For details, see Volume [-] of "Dongming Ji".

Dare to feel that the dark shadows on all sides are ghosts from the photos!Shao Jingxing read a lot of comics, and quickly understood the content of the moving picture combined with the text - this handsome-looking grass is a bright-stem grass. Although it is called grass, it is much taller than ordinary grass, and it is still It can emit light and ghosts, which is really amazing.

This animation is really well done. It shows the appearance of the grass from the bud to the full-grown. What's going on with this explanation?Also refer to the third volume of "Dong Ming Ji" for details, that is to say, after seeing the moving picture, do I still need to check the information for details?

Most of his thoughts were on the moving picture, and he didn't pay much attention to his ears. After a while, he felt that something was wrong from Ji Xiaojiu's words just now: "Physical training?" Isn't it reading the information? , what about physical training?

Ji Xiaojiu choked, and immediately made amends: "Yeah, what do you think, if you encounter something bad, you have to fight it? Even if you can't fight it, you can escape by running fast, right? "

Shao Jingxing saw another dynamic picture of an earth dragon on the screen, opening and closing its huge mouth like a meat grinder, and immediately felt that Ji Xiaojiu was very correct: "Yes, yes, yes, Ji Miss is right! Uh——"Miss Chicken or something, this title doesn't seem very nice...

Ji Xiaojiu's face drooped suddenly: "Just call me Xiaojiu. Forget it, you can laugh if you want."

"What's so funny about this?" Shao Jingxing has always behaved like a gentleman in front of beautiful girls, "The name was chosen by the parents and entrusted with their parents' wishes, so how can you laugh. For example, your name, Yu means beautiful jade, right? OK."

"That's right. It's the surname—it doesn't feel right to put any character together." Ji Xiaojiu was a little happier when he said it, "My whole life has been lined with jade characters. My cousin is called Ji Zhen, the second cousin is called Ji Jing, and the third cousin is called Ji Wei... Ouch, they are all good words, but they are called together..."

Chicken gizzards, chicken necks, cocktail tails...it sounds like a family.

Shao Jingxing had no choice but to say against his conscience: "Actually, if you don't think about it carefully, it sounds pretty good..."

"Better than my uncle's generation..." Ji Xiaojiu said with emotion, "My uncle is called Ji Chi, my third uncle is called Ji Zhui, and my aunt is called Ji Jiao. Compared with this, we can actually do it..."

Shao Jingxing opened his mouth and had nothing to say.After all, chicken gizzards and cocktails are not any better than chicken wings, chicken spines and chicken feet.

"So let's call me Xiaojiu." Ji Xiaojiu summed it up and boasted a bit, "I'm still smart. Calling me Ji Yi, Ji Er, Ji San according to the ranking sounds much better. "

Shao Jingxing couldn't help asking: "The one in front of you, I mean the one who ranks eighth..." Others can rank according to the ranking, so what should this one be called?

Ji Xiaojiu was choked, and it took him a long time to break the jar and say: "Anyway, his original name is not good, his name is Ji Yan."

Shao Jingxing looked up the word "Yan" on his phone with his head down, and then fell silent.Compared with Ji Ba, corns are nothing nice, although the word Yan originally meant some kind of jade...

"This is your family—" How do you name your child?Can't you find a word that sounds more pleasing to the ear?Although it is a bit connected with Ji...but if you look through the dictionary carefully, you should be able to find better words, right?For example, Ji Ke, Ji Yue, Ji Long—well, the chicken coop is fine, but the first two are better, right?

Ji Xiaojiu sighed: "My seventh cousin is called Ji Yue, which is the most beautiful name in our generation. It's a pity that other people are not so lucky, and the words that come out of divination are so... It's hard to describe."

"Divination?" Shao Jingxing suddenly felt tall, "Your family names are all based on divination?"

"Yes." Ji Xiaojiu sighed again, "Do you think the name is so easy to choose? People are born with deficiencies, and small deficiencies are fine. If the deficiencies are serious, we must make up for them. But to make up for deficiencies, let's talk about it." It’s easier to do than to do, and using the name to make up is already the simplest and most practical way. For the sake of practicality, we have to sacrifice something else.”

Shao Jingxing thought of the naming websites that he often saw on the Internet: "It's the kind of hit that lacks water, lacks fire, and then takes a word with the word water next to the word fire to make up for it?"

Ji Xiaojiu sneered: "That's all taken for granted. It's not so easy to make up the five elements! My family's names are all based on the Book of Changes. What kind of water word is next to the fire word, what radicals are used by which generation, are men and women the same? They are arranged in order, and this is all divination. Otherwise, you think my aunt likes to be called Ji Jiao, and it’s not because her fate is different from that of her uncles, and she can’t be ranked with them, so she chose another name.”

Shao Jingxing was about to stand in awe: "It's so troublesome..." How could he still use Zhou Yi Bu?Unknown!Although chicken wings are not necessarily better than chicken feet...

Ji Xiaojiu waved her hands with a dejected look on her face: "Actually, ordinary people don't need to be so troublesome. There is no such thing as perfect in the world. If you lack a little bit, you can lack a little bit. Anyway, if it weren't for the strange birth date, ordinary people would not be short of much. Our family is mainly dealing with dangerous things, and if we are a little bit close, our fate may be lost, so we have to be cautious when choosing a name, and try to complete it."

"Your family?" Since Ji Xiaojiu is in the special affairs department, Shao Jingxing also wants to know what the danger she refers to, but does the whole family do this?Sounds like an heirloom.

Ji Xiaojiu showed a little proud expression, as if her forehead was glowing: "Our family name is Ji!"

"The surname is Ji... what's wrong?" Shao Jingxing asked cautiously.It's not that he doesn't want to cheer, the main reason is that the burden doesn't seem to be shaken off, he can't bear it.

"You don't know—" Ji Xiaojiu was a little frustrated, "But you haven't been exposed to these things, so it's normal if you don't know. Our family is the descendant of Queen Zhou Wen."

"King Wen of Zhou—" Shao Jingxing thought desperately, and finally remembered, "Ji Chang!" Let me go, is the background so big?

"Then, what is your supernatural power?" Shao Jingxing was filled with reverence immediately, and began to imagine the grand scene of a copy of "Book of Changes" automatically releasing thunder and flames in the air without wind.Didn't it mean that one qi produces two appearances, two appearances produce four images, and four images produce gossip, and the gossip contains all the secrets between heaven and earth? Then Ji Chang's descendants must be...

But before he finished thinking, Ji Xiaojiu's face drooped again: "I, I'm confused."

"Ah?" The gap was too great, and Shao Jingxing couldn't get used to it for a while, "It's just—you turned it into a tengu?"

"That, that's not..." Ji Xiaojiu coughed dryly, "It fell into the world of mountains and seas, and then mutated." But she immediately became confident: "But it was raised by me! Didn't I put in all my effort to raise such a small kitten to such a big size? Do you know how hard it is to raise a cat?"

Shao Jingxing never debated with women, not to mention that Ji Xiaojiu might become angry when he really debated.He is currently living on someone else's land, counting on their cat to help him block the curse, if he pokes someone's sore feet again - it takes a SB person to do it!

So Shao Jingxing followed the good example: "That's right, it's such an easy job to be a poop shoveler. My friend's cat has a bad temper. He never bury himself after pooping, but let the owner bury it every time. And he won't even eat canned food." It’s delicious, I only eat it produced by a Sanwu workshop on Taobao, my friend bought imported canned food for it and refused to eat it..."

"Yes, yes!" Ji Xiaojiu seemed to have found a confidant, "But your friend's cat is too eccentric. Fortunately, we are very obedient, right?"

As she spoke, she held Garfield in her arms to kiss it: "Let my sister kiss it, and I will sing for you later."

Garfield turned his head and pressed one of his paws on his master's face with a look of refusal.Shao Jingxing looked at the latter stroking the cat from head to tail with great sympathy, and finally understood why the cat always had such a mournful face—it was really too much to bear with such an owner.

However, Ji Xiaojiu didn't just indulge in masturbating cats after all, she still dutifully gave Shao Jingxing some popular science: "Our side is one of the strongholds of the Special Affairs Department. The first floor is a restaurant, and the second floor is a dormitory. Meal. By the way, have you had breakfast? If you haven't eaten, I'll come down to eat with you later."

Shao Jingxing ran wild all night in his dream, and then ran to the private restaurant with Huo Qing in fear, but of course he didn't eat.At this moment, Ji Xiaojiu said that his stomach growled wildly, which made Ji Xiaojiu laugh: "Let's go, eat first. There are a lot of materials here, so read them slowly after eating."

The private restaurant was not open during the day, so Shao Jingxing could smell a fragrance as soon as he walked down from the second floor.Gu Sheng came out of the back kitchen, holding a few bowls of small wontons in his hand: "Xiao Shao, come, let's eat."

"Ah, small shrimp ravioli!" Ji Xiaojiu cheered, and threw the cat on the side cabinet. Garfield gave the owner a sad look, jumped out of the cabinet and went straight to his own cat food bowl to eat.

The small wontons with shrimp meat were very delicious. Shao Jingxing was so hungry that he ate the small wontons fiercely.After taking two bites, the side door of the restaurant was pushed open, and someone rushed in yelling: "Little crucian carp, mushy, who's here, come and help me! I can't stand it anymore!"

Shao Jingxing was startled, and when he looked up, he saw a high school student with colorfully dyed hair rushing in, holding a chicken in his hand?

This chicken is not big in size, with reed-colored feathers on its body, and a white head, so it looks particularly red in its comb.The high school student held its two paws upside down, and the chicken struggled endlessly like a live fish, but its mouth was bound by something, so it couldn't make a sound.

wrong!Shao Jingxing suddenly realized something was wrong—the high school student was holding not two chicken paws, but two tiger paws?

Shao Jingxing couldn't help rubbing his eyes, and found that he was right.Although this "chicken" looks like an ordinary reed rooster, its two paws are not only covered with tiger stripes, but also fluffy!It's definitely not chicken!

"Ouch, birdie!" Ji Xiaojiu had already given the answer, "It's still alive! You can do it, little yellow croaker!"

What the hell?Chick?Shao Jingxing pondered secretly.Because it looked like a bird, he preferred Ji Xiaojiu to use the word "bird".But when he looked at the claws of this thing, he was not sure. He only thought that the word "odd" should be right, after all, this thing looks really strange...

As he was thinking, he looked at the "reed chicken" in the hands of the high school student, but he saw the chicken rolled its big eyes and suddenly glanced at him.

The eyeballs of this "Reed Chicken" are surprisingly large, and it feels a bit out of proportion on that small head.Moreover, the eyeballs are particularly black, so black that they turn blue.Shao Jingxing took a look at it, and felt that the color was like the sky at night, and there were stars shining in it...

"Xiao Shao!" Gu Sheng's voice suddenly rang in his ears, as thick as the sound of bells and drums, it shook his heart, and he was in a daze.The stars in front of him suddenly disappeared, only Gu Sheng's concerned face.

"Me, what's wrong with me?" Shao Jingxing was a little at a loss.Just now he seemed to be floating for a while, until Gu Sheng's voice sounded, he suddenly seemed to be on the ground again.

"I've been haunted by a sparrow." Ji Xiaojiu ran over to pick up the "chicken". The chicken was not honest, so she immediately waved to Huo Mu, "Hurry up!"

Garfield looked at it with a face of reluctance, and reluctantly arched his back and said "Du" at the reed chicken, and finally brought out a soft "Woo--", which sounded very cowardly and had no deterrent effect at all. .

But with just such a cry, the reed chicken froze suddenly, and the whole chicken seemed to have lost its vitality, and became cowering.Ji Xiaojiu took the opportunity to pick up a cat bag out of nowhere, and the two of them hurriedly stuffed the chicken into it, zipped it up, and then heaved a sigh of relief: "Okay."

"This is, why is this—" Shao Jingxing felt that his tongue couldn't control him, "What the hell is this?" He didn't even know how to ask.

"Hey bird, didn't Xiao Jiu just say that?" The high school student patted the chicken feathers sticking to his body, feeling relieved, "Fortunately, there are few people at the moment, otherwise, it would be a big trouble to carry a few more all the way back. gone."

To Shao Jingxing, there was no answer to these words, so he could only turn his attention to Gu Sheng for help.It's just that Gu Sheng can't care about him now, and is asking the high school students: "Where did this bird come from?"

The high school student sat down at the table, picked up a bowl of small wontons, and said vaguely: "Don't mention it. Yesterday, a classmate of mine said that there was a chicken on a tree near her house. The whole class laughed and said The chicken couldn't get on the tree, and she was dazzled—oh, because of this, she almost got into a fight. Uncle Gu, why are these young people so impetuous now?"

"Huang Yu!" Ji Xiaojiu put his hands on his hips, "You have the nerve to call others impetuous. If you are not impetuous, why don't you bring a cage to catch you? If you are also caught by the sparrow, it will be troublesome!"

High school student Huang Yu immediately fought back: "Is it my fault? Who designed the cage? Should I bring a cat bag to catch chickens?"

"Do you understand?" Ji Xiaojiu despised him, "The cat bag is convenient for taking the mess out. And the cat bag is cute, who doesn't have a cat nowadays. No one will care if you take the cat bag out. Besides, you don't want to bring the cat bag, do you want to take the cockroach house out?"

After all, Huang Yu was young, and he probably hadn't learned to "not bicker with women". He was dizzy and speechless after being sprayed by Ji Xiaojiu.Gu Sheng also frowned: "If you don't bring a cage, at least you should bring a hood."

When he opened his mouth, Huang Yu was speechless. He lowered his head and said, "I really didn't expect it to be a bird... At the time I thought it was a bird..."

"Please——" Ji Xiaojiu curled her lips, "The man's face, if your classmates see it, they will definitely mention it. At least they can say it's a 'very strange' chicken."

She talked endlessly: "If the rooster crows at five o'clock and disturbs the people in the middle of the night, your classmates will definitely mention its crowing. Yuanfei chickens are purple, and ordinary chickens don't have this color. Your classmates should I don’t think it’s an ordinary chicken. Although the soul-scaring bird looks like a chicken, but its coat color is like a phoenix, your classmate will definitely say that it’s a very beautiful chicken. The Chongming bird has double pupils—well, you might not be able to tell if you don’t look carefully. But it is generally in the state of losing its hair. This characteristic is very obvious. Your classmates will definitely notice it. They will definitely say that it is a chicken without feathers. The rest of the chickens, ? Well, there is still a difference between pheasants and domestic chickens, your classmates should call them birds instead of chickens. Not to mention the other strange shapes, unless your classmates are blind, they will never say they are chickens.”

She finally made a conclusion: "To sum up, you should think that it is probably a sparrow, so you should wear a hood when you go!"

Huang Yu was defeated by her series of "your classmate" and "chicken", and had nothing to say.There was a hint of a smile in Gu Sheng's eyes, and he patted his thin shoulder: "Xiao Jiu is right. Thinking about it before setting out on a mission is also protecting yourself."

Huang Yu scratched his ears, and murmured softly: "Who can be like her, who can say a string of words with the word 'chicken', really worthy of the surname 'Ji'..."

"What are you talking about!" Ji Xiaojiu's ears were sharp, and she was so angry that she wanted to beat him up, "You can't remember, don't you know how to search for keywords? You yellow croaker head!"

The two quarreled, Shao Jingxing was still immersed in the "chicken" and couldn't extricate himself, he murmured to Gu Sheng, "Soul-stricken bird, Chongming bird, Jisi... what are these?"

Gu Sheng was about to answer with a smile, but suddenly his face changed slightly, and he turned his head to look at the window.There was only a sound of tearing silk, the screen window was torn to pieces, and a reed - no, a sparrow rushed in from outside!