The latest Xianxia theme work 'I am Xianfan' in 2017 is officially uploaded at the starting point!
Bailixi's latest fairy-themed work "I Am a Fairyland" in 2017 has been officially uploaded on .asxs. Please read it and bookmark it!
Work: "I am an immortal"
Theme: Fairyland Fantasy.
Style: The same style as "Purple Mansion Immortal Yuan", a story about immortal farming.
Introduction:
Su Chen, a young fisherman in Gusu City who was pregnant with bluestone tears, accidentally opened his spiritual platform and discovered that there was a square-inch spiritual mountain in the boundless sea of consciousness, a paradise for immortals.
The spiritual springs can water the fairy valley, the spiritual veins can open up caves, several fairy spirits are born in the purple mansion, and the spiritual grass and fairy flowers are like a fairyland for ten miles.
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(The beginning of the new book, the first chapter, a short plot of several hundred words)
Volume 1 of the mortal world
1 A cold night rafting
Cold winter.
The first quarter moon rises early, and when the moon sets, it will be dawn.
At this time, Zhouzhuang Water Town is still immersed in the vast morning fog, and only a hazy outline of the water town can be seen.
Everything on the river bank was silent, and the cold wind was as cold as a knife.
In a crow's nest at the top of a dead tree, jackdaws huddled in the nest, occasionally emitting a cry that was particularly noisy and harsh in the night.
Su Chen stepped on a small bamboo raft, holding on to a ten-foot-long bamboo pole with his cold red hands, swaying in the water and sliding into the river.
On the bamboo raft behind him were a fishing basket made of bamboo strips, a bamboo fishing lantern, and a fishing net.
From time to time, water splashed onto the raft, wetting his straw and rattan shoes. The ice water was filled with a bone-piercing chill. The cold wind blew, and his thin and thin body suddenly shivered.
Su Chen is the child of a poor fishing family in Zhouzhuang.
The life of the fisherman's family was difficult. The boat tax from the Gusu County government was already very heavy. Coupled with the extortion from Jianghu gangs from time to time, it was like two heavy boulders, weighing down the Su family and making it difficult for them to breathe.
My parents go fishing in the big lake every day, leaving early and returning late, which is barely enough for a family of five to make ends meet.
Su Chen was still a frail twelve-year-old boy, but he was already very mature and sensible. He wanted to take advantage of the dawn, which was still an hour before dawn, to catch some fish and shrimps in the river and sell them for some copper coins to supplement the family income.
When the bamboo raft reached the river, he inserted a ten-foot-long bamboo pole deep into the mud at the bottom of the river and anchored it.
Su Chen rubbed his almost cold hands vigorously to make himself warmer. He rolled up the sleeves of his linen clothes, took out flint and hay from his arms, and banged them hard for more than ten times before finally igniting a piece of hay.
He hurriedly lit the bamboo oil lamp on the raft with hay, picked up the bamboo oil lamp with a small stick, and placed it on the edge of the bamboo raft, close to the water.
The light of the bamboo oil lamp is extremely dim, but it is the only light in this silent river in the hazy night.
Fish and shrimp tend to be light-oriented and are easily attracted to open flames at night.
If you sprinkle some fish food such as fish grass leaves, earthworms and steamed bun pellets as bait, it will naturally attract more fish and shrimps to come to feed.
"Lighting to lure fish" is a little trick used by fishermen to fish at night, and it is also Su Chen's best fishing technique.
After Su Chen finished doing this, he tightened his thin linen shirt, squatted on the bamboo raft soaked in cold water, held a fishing net, and patiently waited for the fish in the river to come to feed.
There are a lot of small fish and shrimps in the river, but they are not worth much.
Da Lao shipped it all the way to the Ximen Wharf Market in Gusu County to sell it. A large fishing basket full of small fish larvae and shrimps was only exchanged for two or three copper coins, which was barely enough for the fishermen to eat for a busy day.
The most valuable ones are big fish weighing several kilograms.
In Lou County near Zhouzhuang Water Town, there is a large deep-water lake that is hundreds of miles long, called Dianshan Lake. The lake has high winds and strong waves, and is rich in large crucian carp.
If you catch a big fish weighing two kilograms, you can sell it for five copper coins.
However, it is something that only distinguished guests in county towns and restaurants and inns often eat.
The fishermen in Zhouzhuang are reluctant to eat the big fish they catch.
It was usually transported to Gusu County and sold in exchange for copper coins, which were used to pay the county government's boat tax. The few copper coins left were exchanged for rice, salt and oilcloth, so that the family could barely make ends meet.
In addition, there are three extremely rare treasures in the large lake: "silver-spine saury, alabaster stonefish, and red-tailed prawns."
Thinking of these three rare fishes, Su Chen felt excited.
A rare silverback swordfish weighing only half a catty was sold to the largest restaurant in Gusu County, "Sky Eagle Inn", for a staggering price of 500 copper coins, which is almost worth the price of an entire boat salvaged by fishermen.
The fish is still valuable.
Su Chen often went to the Tianying Inn in the county town with the fishermen to sell fish, and met A Chou, the waiter at the Tianying Inn. After three visits, the two teenagers became good brothers who talked about everything, so they were familiar with the county town.
Fish market conditions.
It's just that these precious fish species are extremely difficult to catch. Hundreds of fishing boats go into the lake every day, but only one or two may not be able to catch one of the three treasures.
Even veteran fishermen with decades of experience would have a hard time catching silverback saury in large deep-water lakes with huge fishing nets measuring several feet.
If a fisherman is lucky enough to catch one, he will definitely show it off to all the fishermen in Zhouzhuang, hoping that everyone will boast and envy him.