King of the Fairy City

Bai Lixi's latest fairy-tale work "I am a Fairy" in 2017 is officially uploaded on Qidian. Please read it! Collect one!

Work: "I am a Fairy"

Theme: Fairy fantasy.

Style: The same style as "Purple Mansion Fairy Fate", a fairy farming story.

Introduction:

Su Chen, a young fisherman in Gusu City with bluestone tears, accidentally opened his spiritual platform and found a square inch of spiritual mountain in the boundless sea of ​​consciousness, a paradise for fairies.

Spiritual springs can irrigate the fairy valley, spiritual veins can open caves, several fairies are born in the purple mansion, and 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 hundreds of words)

Volume 1 The Ordinary World

1 A Cold Raft in One Night

Cold winter.

The waxing moon rises early, and when the moon sets, the sky will dawn.

At this time, Zhouzhuang Water Village is still immersed in the vast morning mist, and only a hazy outline of the water village can be seen.

The river bank was silent, and the cold wind was as sharp as a knife.

In a crow's nest on the top of a dead tree, jackdaws huddled in the nest, occasionally making a cry, which was particularly noisy and harsh in the night.

Su Chen stepped on a small bamboo raft, his red hands tightly grasping a bamboo pole that was a meter long, swaying in the water and sliding into the river.

On the bamboo raft behind him, there was a bamboo fishing basket, a bamboo fishing lamp, and a fishing net.

Water splashed on the raft from time to time, soaking his straw shoes, and the ice water was chilly. When the cold wind blew, his thin body shivered a few times.

Su Chen was the child of a poor fishing family in Zhouzhuang.

The fishing family had a hard life. The boat tax of Gusu County Government was already very heavy, and the gangs of the rivers and lakes extorted from time to time, like two heavy boulders, pressing the Su family up and down and making them breathless.

My parents went fishing in the lake every day, leaving early and returning late, but it was only enough for the family of five to make a living.

Su Chen was still a frail boy of twelve years old, but he was already mature and sensible. He wanted to catch some fish and shrimp in the river at dawn, which was still an hour before dawn, and sell 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 stiff and cold hands hard to warm himself up. He rolled up his linen sleeves, took out flint and hay from his arms, and hit them hard for more than ten times before finally igniting a piece of hay.

He hurriedly used the hay to light the bamboo tube oil lamp on the raft, picked up the bamboo tube oil lamp with a small stick, and placed it on the edge of the bamboo raft, close to the water surface.

The light of the bamboo tube oil lamp was extremely dim, but it was the only light in this quiet river with a hazy night.

Fish and shrimps tend to be attracted to light and are easily attracted by open flames at night.

If you sprinkle some fish food such as fish grass leaves, earthworms and steamed bread crumbs as bait, more fish and shrimp will naturally come to seek food.

"Lights to lure fish" is a trick used by fishermen to fish at night, and it is also Su Chen's best fishing technique.

After Su Chen did all this, he tightened his thin linen shirt, squatted on the cold and soaked bamboo raft, holding a fishing net, and patiently waited for the fish in the river to come to seek food.

There are many small fish and shrimps in the river, but they are not worth much.

A large fishing basket full of small fish and shrimps transported all the way to the Ximen Wharf Market in Gusu County can only be exchanged for two or three copper coins, which is barely enough for the fishermen's meal for a busy day.

What is valuable is the big fish weighing several kilograms.

There is a deep lake of more than 100 miles in Lou County near Zhouzhuang Water Town, called Dianshan Lake. The lake is windy and rough, and it is rich in big crucian carp.

A big fish weighing two kilograms can be sold for five copper coins.

However, that is something that only the county people and the guests of the inn often eat.

The fishermen in Zhouzhuang are reluctant to eat the big fish they catch.

They are usually transported to Gusu County and sold for copper coins to pay the boat tax of the county government. The remaining copper coins are exchanged for rice, salt, oil and cloth to barely support the livelihood of the family.

In addition, there are three extremely rare treasures in the big lakes: "Silver-backed Knife Fish, Snowflake Stone Fish, and Red-tailed Prawn".

Thinking of these three precious fish, Su Chen's heart warmed.

A rare silver-backed knife fish weighing only half a catty can be sold to the largest restaurant in Gusu County, "Tianying Inn", for a staggering price of 500 copper coins, which is almost as valuable as a whole boat of fish caught by fishermen.

Su Chen often went to the Tianying Inn in the county with the fishermen to sell fish. He knew Ah Chou, a clerk who worked in the Tianying Inn. After a few visits, the two teenagers became good brothers who could talk about anything, so they were familiar with the market conditions of the county fish market.

However, these precious fish species are extremely difficult to catch. Hundreds of fishing boats go to the lake every day, but not one or two can catch one of the three treasures.

Even old fishermen with decades of experience can hardly catch silver-backed knife fish in deep lakes with huge fishing nets of several feet.

If a fisherman is lucky enough to catch one, he will definitely show off to all the fishermen in Zhouzhuang, wishing that everyone would boast and envy him.