Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen The Chieftain
After accidentally collecting a hundred golden silkworm insects, Li Yueling was in a good mood. He smiled and said, "It's just a few tricks. By the way, Brother Bencha, it's getting late, so let's go on the road as soon as possible. You must arrive at the village before dark, otherwise you will go hungry. Also, don't tell anyone what happened just now. After all, you should know that many people will not understand the methods I used just now. At that time, it would be bad if others recognize me as a cheating charlatan."
"I understand, I will keep it secret." After answering, Yabancha responded, he looked at the place where he had just left the water-filling backpack because of his excessive shock. The place was empty and had already disappeared from the previous attack of the Golden Silkworm Guworm. Not to mention water-filling backpacks, they even swallowed them with cowhide backpacks. It seems that their digestive ability is really not ordinary.
"No problem." Yabancha, who survived the disaster, had long regarded Li Yueling as his life-saving benefactor and nodded gratefully: "A little further forward is the exit of this forest. After leaving the forest, you will reach the village."
It was almost seven o'clock in the evening, and under the guidance of Yabancha, Li Yueling finally arrived at his destination.
Obviously, Yabancha is quite popular in this Miao village with hundreds of people. As soon as he and Li Yueling arrived, many young men dressed in Miao and girls greeted him. Several young Miao men even went up and called him "Brother Bancha".
Seeing this, Li Yueling couldn't help but smile and said, "Brother Bancha, you are really popular here!"
Jabenza grinned and said with a simple smile: "Most of the people in the village will not go outside. Everything is self-sufficient here, except me. I am the exception. I often walk back and forth between the two ends and bring some fresh things from modern society to the young people in the village when they have time. They just want to be fresh and have a good chat with me."
At this time, several bold Miao girls surrounded Yabancha and covered their mouths and laughed at Li Yueling, who was dressed in casual clothes, and said something to Yabancha in Miao language, asking this and that, which made Li Yueling very confused.
After the Miao girls left, Li Yueling said curiously: "Brother Bancha, what did those girls just say?"
"Oh, they!" Gabenza smiled and said, "They mean that there will be a bonfire dance party in the village tonight, and asked me to attend, and then asked me if you will attend together."
"The bonfire dance party sounds good!" Li Yueling said softly, and then said cheerfully: "Of course I'll participate. As long as I don't think I'm an outsider, hehe."
Behind Gabancha, Li Yueling was taken to the door of a large thatched hut in the middle of the village. "Boss, this is where Tuode Toshi lives, but the people in the village just told me that Tuode Toshi went to the forest to collect herbs early this morning, and it is estimated that it will take a while before we can come back. It is better for us to eat something first and attend the bonfire dance. Lord Tuoshi will also attend after he comes back."
"It's good."
He went to his uncle's house with Yabancha. Li Yueling first drank four bowls of oil tea, which meant peace in all seasons. This was also a custom for the hospitality of Miao people. Then he was invited by Yabancha's hospitality to share dinner in the inner room. After eating this meal, Li Yueling was praised.
I tasted all the various special Miao dishes of blood-filled soup, pepper bones, cotton vegetable cakes, insect tea, pounded fish, sour soup fish, and all kinds of Miao special dishes. After eating them, Li Yueling took out two bottles of 30-year-old Jiannanchun from Shenghan Ring, one bottle was given to Yabancha's uncle, and the other bottle was opened on the spot. A few people had a cup of each one, and they drank it happily.
After eating this meal at around 8 o'clock, there was a sudden roar of drums and music outside the house. I hurried over and saw that there was a blazing bonfire on the beach by the village stream. Nearly a hundred young Miao men and women danced happily around the bonfire.
The arrival of Li Yueling made many Miao girls lit up their eyes. The bold and cheerful personality of ethnic minorities is also so obvious to women. A Miao girl who looks only fourteen and five years old took Li Yueling's hand and jumped up. Fortunately, the former is not an ordinary person. With her excellent physical conditions, she accurately kept up with the rhythm of Miao girls in less than half a minute, and she danced no less than any Miao guy in the village.
With Li Yueling's current temperament and appearance, he really has a great attraction to women. In addition, he is approachable, so after only half an hour of dancing, no less than ten Miao girls have pulled him to dance, and there is also a significant growth momentum.
The simple folk customs in the village made Li Yueling enjoy it very much. Until he suddenly felt a faint fluctuation of Yuanli, he stopped dancing, and the sound of drums and music gradually subsided.
"Tuede is back..." I don't know who called out first, which immediately caused everyone to shout happily. It was obvious that, as Yabencha said before, Tuede is the most noble in the village, both reputation and status can be seen from this point alone.
Looking along the voice, Li Yueling saw an old man dressed in Miao in a short dress walking from the other side of the beach by the stream with a large bamboo basket on his back.
If it were according to Yabancha's previous introduction, this Tuode Toshi was already in his 90s, but after seeing the real person, Li Yueling could never associate this age with the Tuode Toshi in front of him. In fact, it would be the most appropriate to describe him as "crown-haired and childlike face". If it weren't for his snow-white hair, it would probably be an exaggeration to say that he was in his fifties.
What made Li Yueling most strange was that the fluctuations in the Yuanli he sensed just now were actually released by this Tuode Chieftain. Although it was not very strong, this also shows that Tuode Chieftain should be a cultivator, otherwise how could there be the Yuanli that only cultivators could possess?
The time when Tuode Toast returned was also the moment when the bonfire dance was about to end. After many Miao men and women and toasts greeted each other, people gradually dispersed, but the bonfire still illuminated the beach by the stream.
Yabancha waved to Li Yueling and then went forward, "Sir, I brought a Han friend from afar. He came here to visit your old man."
At this time, Li Yueling had already followed him. After Yabancha finished speaking, he immediately politely said to Tuode Tuo: "Hello, I'm here to ask you some questions."
Tuode first handed the bamboo basket filled with herbs behind him to Yabencha, then squinted his eyes and stared at Li Yueling for a while. After a while, he nodded and said, "Young man, I am very happy to know you, come with me. If you don't dislike me, I will sit in my old chieftain's house." After that, regardless of whether Li Yueling agreed or not, he quickly walked towards the village.
Seeing that his walking speed was no longer much slower than that of an ordinary person trotting, this scene fell into Li Yueling's eyes, and it even confirmed that Tuode Tusi was a cultivator.
Yabancha nodded to Li Yueling and said softly: "Boss Li, the toast has invited you to his house. It seems that he has a good impression of you. You should follow up quickly. Don't let him wait for a long time. I will go back to my uncle's place to wait first."
When Li Yueling was about to ask why Yabencha didn't go there with him, the latter seemed to guess something from Li Yueling's confused expression, and continued: "Not anyone can enter the house of Tusi, his house, can't even pass by without his invitation."
"What a weird old chieftain! But he is easy-going..." Li Yueling said intimately when he heard this, and smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go there now, and I'll come to you after I've finished asking."
After Yabancha left, Li Yueling showed up and quickly caught up with Tuode Tusi, who had already moved forward, and followed up with the largest and most grand house in the middle of the Miao village.
"Young man, your legs are very fast, come, sit down and talk." Tuode Tous seemed to have not expected Li Yueling to follow him so quickly. After seeing Li Yueling who was following him calmly, he was a little surprised, but soon returned to normal and handed him a cup of oil tea.
"Sir, I think..." Li Yueling was impatient and wanted to ask directly about the whereabouts of Wu Yueling at the exact location.
But when he was halfway through his words, the old Tuode interrupted: "Young man, before you ask me about the matter, I also want to ask you something. Can I ask the old Tuode first?"
A sharp light flashed in Li Yueling's deep eyes, and he thought to himself as if he had noticed. Could it be that this Tuode Tuo also sensed the fluctuations of the Yuanli on me and knew my identity as a cultivator?
This thought flashed through, and Li Yueling was used to being generous, so he smiled casually and said, "You are an elder. If what I know is helpful to you, just ask."
Tuode Tuode was very happy when he heard Li Yueling's words, and nodded and said, "Actually it's nothing. It's just that my old bones have been playing with the worms for the rest of my life. I am very sensitive to the smell of various worms. As soon as I saw my friend, I smelled the smell of the worms on your body. So I would like to ask my friend, have I encountered the worms on the way here?"
Li Yueling had nothing to say, not to mention that he had already confirmed that Tuode Tushi was a cultivator, and he was not afraid of being shocked when he told what happened in the foggy forest. After hearing this, he said quietly: "You are right. Brother Bancha and I were indeed attacked by thousands of golden silkworms on the way we came."
"Thousands..." Tuode chieftain almost didn't breathe in a breath. After taking two deep breaths, he calmed down his excitement and said: "How is this possible... The golden silkworm insect is the number one demon insect in Miaojiang and even the world. If a mortal encounters it, it will take only one to kill human life, but you..."
At this time, Li Yueling stretched out his hand and made a stop gesture. Then he took out an "idiot insect" from Shenghan Ring and put it in his palm. Then he smiled calmly and said: "Master Tusi, I am actually like you, both a cultivator, so it is not very strange to be able to escape from the siege of thousands of golden silkworms and subdue a few insects. What do you always say?"
When he heard the three words "cultivator" spitting out from Li Yueling's mouth, Tuode Tusi trembled. After seeing the golden silkworm worm lying obediently in Li Yueling's palm, he was completely stunned.
This made Li Yueling feel a little confused. Logically, according to his own induction, this Tuode chieftain must be a cultivator. As for the strength of his cultivation, it is difficult to judge. How could he be so surprised after learning that he is also a cultivator?
Just as Li Yueling was puzzled, the old chieftain actually knelt down in front of Li Yueling with a "thump", and said with tears in his eyes: "Senior...Senior, you must take Tude as your disciple!"
This time it was Li Yueling's turn to be confused. He couldn't react for a long time. When he saw an old man in his nineties kneeling in front of him and crying and asking him to accept him as his apprentice, few people were afraid that he would remain calm in the face of changes.
"Sir, you are... why bother... Is it okay to say anything?"
"Have you agreed to accept Tuode as your disciple?" Tuode's eyes lit up and he said excitedly.
Li Yueling didn't know how to answer this question, but after holding it in for a long time, he said, "There must be a reason for me to accept you as his disciple! Get up first and explain the whole story clearly. It's not too late to talk about accepting disciples at that time."
Finally, Li Yueling's words played a certain role. Tuode Tusi got up quickly, not like an old man in his 90s at all. His movements were much faster than ordinary young people. However, the tears in his eyes had not dried up, and he seemed like a child who had suffered so much grievance. This also made Li Yueling feel uncomfortable all over.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the room seemed extremely strange. Li Yueling was uncomfortable, while Tuode Tuode looked extremely excited. After a long time, he finally said, "Master, this is like this..." Li Yueling was speechless immediately. Why did this old Tuo like a candy? It was even thicker than the one he had sold for three years! He had never agreed to him, but he called "Master Master".
He smiled helplessly and finally waited for Tude Toshi excitedly explaining the reason for his outrageous behavior. After Tude Toshi explained the reason in one go, Li Yueling's original unsolved mind gradually turned into sympathy and recognition, and he fully understood Tude Toshi's previous behavior.
Chapter completed!