MMB Chapter 1: Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Chapter 1
Little Zhurong, who had just learned how to control fire, was very excited now. He came to a wasteland he found a few days ago, first shouted happily into the open space, and then silently recited the fire formula that had just worked a little bit. Power from all directions condensed within an inch, gradually forming a fireball of moderate size.
Xiao Zhurong held his palm and admired it for a while, and then threw it out with all his strength.
The fireball hit a half-yellow and not green weed, and those few handfuls of poor grass became scorched black in an instant.
Little Zhurong couldn't help being complacent again, and threw several fireballs in a row, destroying several larger grasslands.
Just as he was about to throw it further away, suddenly a ray of clear spring rolled up from nowhere, and extinguished the small fire that had just brewed in his hand at once.
"Who?!" Xiao Zhurong looked around.
After a moment of silence, a person came out from the hill behind him.
Zhu Rong has always felt that he fell in love with Chisongzi at first sight according to the legend, because at that first meeting, he clearly felt that the color of his whole world had changed—all backgrounds were blurred into pieces of color blocks, Step back until the cyan color that sets off the center of the painting becomes more and more vivid and thicker.
But when he was young, he seemed to know how to lose but not to lose. He said with a straight face: "Who are you? Why did you attack me?" When he was having fun, he was suddenly interrupted, and Xiao Zhurong was very upset.
Although Xiao Zhurong was very good at pretending, he didn't expect that the other party was better than him and had a tougher face than him, but he was quite polite, and he only heard him say: "I didn't attack you, I just stopped you from burning this movie again." land."
"Why?" Xiao Zhurong looked at the almost burned land, "Is there anything important in this wasteland?"
"..." Chisongzi also looked at the scorched grass helplessly, "This is the task my grandfather gave me. He asked me to adjust the water supply of this land and make these grass come back to life. Now..."
"Ah?" Xiao Zhurong didn't expect this to be the case, and he was very embarrassed by the well-spoken explanation that he ruined the mission, so he rubbed his nose and said, "Why don't I dig it out for you from other places?" Come and plant a few."
"This..." The good boy Chisongzi was a little hesitant.
"Look, the land in other places is fertile, and the grass grows there. If you change to a barren environment, you will definitely not be able to survive. If you can save it, isn't it amazing! I think it is much more difficult than saving the original grass. Yes, this is an overfulfilled homework!" Xiao Zhu Rong felt more and more reasonable as he said it, and his tone became more excited.
"Then... alright." Little Chisongzi also thought he was right.
"Why haven't I seen you before?" Zhu Rong asked while they were looking for grass elsewhere.
Chisongzi: "I never go out."
"why?"
"Grandpa refused. He let me out for the first time today. Before, he only let me move around the house. He always said it was dangerous outside." Chisongzi bent down and dug up a small grass.
Zhu Rong thought, "Does your grandpa have some brain problems?" He almost said it, but when it came to his lips, he quickly changed his words: "Ah? There is such a grandpa?"
"Well, your grandpa wasn't like that, right?" Chi Songzi looked at him and said.
"...I don't have a grandpa," Zhu Rong couldn't laugh or cry, "my grandpa was gone before I had me."
Chisongzi: "No grandpa? Then who are you with?"
Zhu Rong laughed and said, "I don't have a grandpa, I still have parents!"
Chi Songzi murmured: "Father, mother... I only read those things in books..."
"It's okay! What else do you want to know? I can tell you in the future!" Zhu Rong said happily.
"Do you know a lot?" Chi Songzi only looked at him with a smile.
"Uh...Anyway, I must know more than you who don't even know what your parents are!"
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After the two planted the grass, Chisongzi began his first day of conditioning, while Zhu Rong watched from the side.
Red pine nuts control the water and only save a few grasses, such an exquisite and delicate work, undoubtedly tests the accuracy and patience of the control, but the red pine nuts are easy to handle, unhurried, which attracts a little bit of that. Yes, the afternoon passed in a blink of an eye.
Zhu Rong didn't have as much patience as him, but seeing that he was doing seriously, he refrained from disturbing him and started playing with his own fireball.
As the day went down, the moon hung up faintly.
"Why are you still here?" Chi Songzi was surprised when he finally noticed someone next to him after completing today's task.
Little Zhurong was sitting on a big rock, dragging his chin and looking at him, he had already lost his temper, "Do you have no friends?"
Chi Songzi quickly searched for information about "friends" in his mind, and after realizing the meaning of "friends", he nodded and did not speak.
"Do you have no friends because you can't go out?" Zhu Rong asked again.
"probably."
"Haven't you had a chance to meet other people before?"
Chisongzi was thoughtful: "Yes, but..."
"That's it!" Zhu Rong clapped his hands as if he had succeeded, "You had the opportunity to meet other people, but you didn't make friends with them, it must be because you are too annoying!"
"Huh?" Chi Songzi looked at him puzzled.
"Look, I've been waiting here for you all afternoon, and in the end I just said 'why are you still here', how aggrieved! Thanks to my good temper, if it was replaced by Jumang, it would have been a piece of wood. up."
Chi Songzi was amused by him, and he couldn't hide it, so he looked straight at him with a smile.
Zhu Rong was a little at a loss when he stared at him so bluntly, and jumped off the stone with a kick: "It's getting dark, go home, or your grandpa will be worried."
"Well," Chi Songzi turned and left, "I originally thought so."
"Hi!" Zhu Rong couldn't help shouting.
"What?" Chi Songzi turned around and asked.
Zhu Rong didn't know what to do after shouting, so he said casually: "Are you still here tomorrow? I'll come to you."
"En." Chisongzi responded, and was about to turn around, Zhu Rong said again: "I'm your first friend, right?" After speaking, he stared at Chisongzi's face.
Chi Songzi was surprised at first: "Is this the 'friend' written in the book?" Then he was a little suspicious, wondering what trick he had played, and nodded hesitantly.
Zhu Rong grinned: "Then you have to remember, I am your first friend, don't forget!"
At that time, Zhu Rong didn't know why he emphasized this, but after thinking about it later, he thought that maybe he just wanted to gain a special place in the other party's heart.
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Later, Zhu Rong came to look for Chisongzi every day, wherever he went to have fun in the morning, and in the afternoon Zhu Rong watched Chisongzi control the water.
Chi Songzi couldn't help asking: "Why do you always have to wait until night, aren't you bored?"
"What do you know?" Zhu Rong poked Chi Songzi's face, but was avoided by the other party, "This is called loyalty, you can't leave your friends alone where no one is around."
"Why? Am I still the same person without you?"
"But you have me now!" Zhu Rong said, "Now you are different from before, you have friends, and friends are people who want to be together all the time, you know?"
"Ah? Really? I remember...that's not how it was written in the book."
"Trust me, have I ever lied to you?" Zhu Rong asked.
"...I don't know that you lied to me." Chi Songzi said helplessly, "Besides, how can we stay together forever? If you don't go home, I will go home."
"You are so stupid! People are not together, but hearts can be together!" Zhu Rong shouted.
Chi Songzi was speechless: "Zhu Rong... I just don't know much about the world. I'm not stupid. Where do you read this love talk? You know how to use it to fool me."
Zhu Rong chuckled: "I heard this when I was sleeping with my parents. My father treated me differently then!"
Chi Songzi simply didn't know what to say about him.
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After a month of hard work, the grass on this wasteland has finally started to grow again, and there are still many small green shoots emerging.The barren land that was full of loess and gravel a month ago is now full of greenery and vitality, and it looks completely new.
Chisongzi's grandfather praised him after seeing it, and he took the opportunity to make a request: "Grandpa, now I can control mana, can I come out to play in the future, and protect myself in case of danger..."
"No!" Grandpa said resolutely, "What do you mean with so little mana, you can't beat me with a finger, when will your mana surpass grandpa, when will you come out... Have you met someone in the past few days? Who is it?"
"No," Chi Songzi said, "I just figured it out on my own. After all, no one can be imprisoned for a lifetime. I don't care what your reason is, you always don't let me out, but I really have nothing to do. Why don't you Tell me why?"
"I'll tell you later. It's not the time yet." Grandpa left after saying this, Chi Songzi had no choice but to shut up and follow him back.
So he went back to the previous days of "house arrest". The only difference was that Zhu Rong would come to his window every day to say a few words and tell some funny stories between him and his friends to make him laugh, which added to his boring time. A color like no other.
This simple to single life ended on an ordinary day. On that day, Zhu Rong brought something.
It was a small and exquisite wood-carved crane, the lines of each feather were lifelike, with its head tilted and its knees raised, as if it was looking for something, it was full of charm.
Zhu Rong explained: "I begged Brother Shu to do this. He injected the soul of a parrot and the mind of a human into it. It can repeat whatever you say." Note ①
"What is... what?" Chi Songzi asked him inexplicably.
"Oh, how stupid! You put something like 'I'm busy' or 'Don't come in' in it, and when your grandpa knocks on your door, it will answer your grandpa with your voice, so that he won't Come in!"
"So, you asked me to..."
"That's right! Then you can come out!" Zhu Rong seemed much more excited than the person involved.
"What if we are found out?" Chi Songzi, a good boy who did something bad for the first time, couldn't help worrying.
"No, you said it yourself, your grandfather doesn't care much about you, and he doesn't come into your room very much," he waved his hand again at this point, "Besides, what's the matter if he was found out, he still wants to lock you up for the rest of his life." In this room?"
Chi Songzi himself said this to his grandfather. He was silent for a while, picked up the wood carving, urged it with force, and said a few words in his mind, simulating a few scenes where his grandfather knocked on his door.
This is the first time that Chisongzi has disobeyed his grandfather's words, but it will not be the last.
Note: ① Shu, Tsubaki's father, a skilled carver, can inject soul into woodcarving. ——From "Big Fish and Begonia - Interactive Encyclopedia"