coobybook Chapter 75: Old Rivals by the River
Chapter 75: Old Rivals by the River
After coming out of the swamp, they walked for another day before they found the river.
During the day and night spent with Li Mingsheng and the others, Wen Qing finally realized the true strength of Li Mingsheng and Yanli.
As for making fire, he originally thought that Li Mingsheng and the others had brought the fire with them, but he didn't expect that it was not the case. Instead, they made the fire themselves.
When Wenqing saw this that night, he screamed, "Li Mingsheng, you can make a fire by yourself. Are you the messenger of the Beast God? Are you here to guide us?" He spoke very devoutly and even pulled Jinhu to kneel down to Li Mingsheng.
Li Mingsheng quickly jumped to the side to avoid it.
"Fire is not a gift from the Beast God, but the result of Brother Li's own knowledge and ability." Yanli thought. Although he thought it was a gift from the Beast God when he had never seen Brother Li make a fire before, he no longer thought so after he learned it.
In addition, during the more than one year of living with Li Mingsheng, he taught him a lot of things, and Yanli's inexplicable worship and admiration for the Beast God had faded a lot.
"If you don't believe me, just watch. I can do it too." Yanli walked to the place where Limingsheng had just rubbed wood to make fire and started to work. Sure enough, in less than two minutes, white smoke came out, and the scattered sparks slowly turned into flames, and finally they were ignited with dry grass.
"See, I can do it too. This is not a gift from the Beast God, but the wisdom of labor." Yanli pointed at the flames rising from the ground and looked at Wenqing.
Seeing this, Wen Qing gave up the idea that Li Mingsheng was the messenger of the Beast God. However, for these things that were far beyond his imagination, he was still willing to believe that Li Mingsheng was a leader who could guide them to live a better life, which made him want to follow Li Mingsheng even stronger.
"Do you want to learn?" Li Mingsheng looked at the chubby Jinhu who was staring at the fire.
"Can I?" Jin Hu's eyes lit up and he looked at Li Mingsheng expectantly.
"Of course, but I'll only teach you once!" Li Mingsheng demonstrated it to Jin Hu, and then taught him again step by step.
"Okay, go have fun by yourself!" Li Mingsheng said and went to do his own thing.
Jin Hu got the idea, and he took his father-in-law to the nearby area to chop wood and collect hay and grass fluff.
But they didn't go too far, they were near where they could see Li Mingsheng.
Jin Hu figured it out for about two hours and finally created a flame.
"Uncle! Uncle! I'm fine now. Come and see." As he said that, Jin Hu pulled Wen Qing away, who was still classifying the plants and fruits collected today.
Li Mingsheng was processing the exotic beast meat on the side and smiled helplessly.
"You seem to like it very much and be very happy!" Yanli looked at Li Mingsheng's relaxed face. He felt a little upset and didn't know why.
"Happy! This noisy atmosphere is very energetic and fresh, don't you think?" Li Mingsheng expressed his feelings.
After all, neither he nor Yanli were the types who liked to play fights or make trouble before, and now with the addition of the young man Jinhu, their entire team has become much more lively.
"Do you like cubs?" Yanli asked again.
Li Mingsheng thought about it and decided that if he didn’t hate them, he must like them. If they were all well-behaved cubs, they would be quite cute.
"I like it! Ali, don't you like it?" Li Mingsheng asked without thinking.
Yanli did not reply to him. Instead, she walked to Xingxing and lay on the ground covered with hay, feeling uncomfortable.
He didn't know why he was upset. When he heard that Li Mingsheng liked cubs, he felt very upset.
"Xingxing, do you understand?" "Forget it, you don't understand either." Yanli asked himself and answered himself. Xingxing ignored him and started eating the fruit in his hand.
Regarding Yanli's abnormal behavior over the past two days, Li Mingsheng felt that it was necessary to find time to have a good talk with him.
On the other side, Jin Hu pulled Wen Qing and pointed at the fire rising on the ground.
"Mom, look." Jin Hu's face was full of smiles, and his eyes were full of praise for me, praise me.
When Wenqing saw the fire, he felt very proud when he thought that this was his own child.
"Ah Hu, you're awesome." Wen Qing did not hesitate to use beautiful words to describe Jin Hu, who even felt a little shy due to the praise.
"Uncle, let me teach you how to make a fire!" Ah Hu pulled Wen Qing to squat down.
"Can I..." Before Wen Qing finished speaking, Li Mingsheng's voice came from a distance, "Of course."
In the end, Wenqing spent more than an hour learning it. It turns out that the so-called gift from God can be so simple.
Wenqing believed that Li Mingsheng was guiding them, the slaves, towards a better and happier life, and was not just about making fire. When he saw the bows and arrows on their backs, he became more convinced of his thoughts.
Not to mention that he knew the linen clothes they wore, the bamboo baskets on their backs, the carts they pulled, the salt on the carts, and so on.
On this day, Wenqing and Jinhu each received a pair of straw sandals. After putting them on, they no longer had to hurt their feet when walking in the mountains and rocky ground.
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Back to the present, they finally found the river. The water they had brought on the cart had been used up. The four people and one beast, who had not had water for half a day, were in urgent need of water.
"Mom, it's a river!" Jinhu shook Wenqing's arm excitedly.
Li Mingsheng was relieved when he saw the river. If there were no more water resources, he might have gone to extremes and dug groundwater.
Li Mingsheng put down the cart. He and Xingxing had taken turns pulling it for the past two days. Fortunately, they were still in the valley and it was not too tiring. In addition, with the help of Yanli and Wenqing father and son, of course the biggest contributor was definitely Xingxing.
He reached out and touched Xingxing's big ears, looking at the river ahead, and decided to wash it thoroughly later.
"I'm so thirsty. Let's go to the river quickly." Jinhu pulled Wenqing forward. They were about two hundred meters away from the river.
"Wait!" Li Mingsheng looked at the river in front of him and felt something was wrong.
He turned his head to look at Yanli, who also had a look of relief on her face. Xingxing, on the other hand, had become impatient from being well-behaved at the beginning.
"What's wrong?" Wen Qing pulled Jinhu's hand and stepped back.
"There is something." Li Mingsheng pointed at the strange beast that appeared on the surface of the river.
"Interesting, it's a giant crocodile beast." Yanli licked his lower lip and thought of the group of giant crocodile beasts that chased him and Li Mingsheng in Wugui Mountain.
Just when I was worrying about where to take revenge, this fellow came to my doorstep.
"Xingxing, watch the cart and protect Jinhu and the others." After saying that, Li Mingsheng took off the bow and arrow on his back, took out an arrow from the quiver hanging on his waist and put it on. Yanli was not much behind.
The two men showed murderous intent.
"Can you handle it without changing into beast form today?" Li Mingsheng said to Yanli, who was only half a head shorter than him and slightly weaker than him, a three-star orc warrior.
Ever since they drew the spirit into their bodies, they have never learned how to use the spirit power freely. They only used it once when they faced the giant squid at the beach. Normally, they fight in their animal form.
Today they wanted to try something different.
"Of course." Yanli raised his eyebrows confidently and glanced at Li Mingsheng, full of provocation.
"What a naughty child." Li Mingsheng said helplessly and dotingly as he looked at Yanli's excited expression as he entered the battle.