Sword and Magic and Clear Flow

Chapter 97

One after another, people came to the wide trestle bridge, filled with strange voices and laughter, and became lively.At this time, the fishing boats that went out to sea at night returned to the port with the rising sun, and baskets of fresh fish were carried ashore from the boats.

Director Zhao guessed that these were caught by night fishing near the sea, but considering the natural swimming and diving skills of the sea people, they might have caught them by going into the water...

Several children about seven or eight years old jumped down. I don't know if they had slept on the boat or they were used to the upside-down life of day and night. They were in good spirits. Jingle bell palm.They ran around on the beach in wooden slippers, picking small shells that were left on the beach by the sea after low tide.

She looked at the children bouncing around, and couldn't take her eyes away. If her bad son found a human partner earlier, maybe her grandchildren would grow up to be so big now...

One of the children played with sex and poked a pink starfish with a small stick, just like a girl's heart-filled magic wand, and said something excitedly to the little friend.

"Ba la la energy, beep beep..." Director Zhao didn't know what he was talking about, so he had to add a line according to his own understanding.

His little friend seemed not to be outdone, turned over in the bucket, picked up a black sea urchin that was almost full of thorns, and replied loudly.

"Guna, the God of Darkness, Ula Ula..." Director Zhao continued to make up the dialogue for them, and he actually enjoyed it a bit.

Then a few children chased a crab and rushed into the sea. After tossing for a long time, someone finally caught it. When they landed, they found that one of the wooden slippers on their feet was missing.He yelled something, and the little friends followed the sound to chase the slipper that was rolling in the waves, but it was a pity that it was swept away by the sea and disappeared completely.

Director Zhao carefully observed their expressions and actions to distinguish the pronunciation rules of the vocabulary, and accurately grasped the two words "sea" and "shoes", and a short sentence that may be "can't find" or "no found" means.

She recited the new words she heard a few times, and continued to watch the children's beach games. Children at this age have clear voices, clear words, and use a lot of single words and short sentences, which is suitable for beginners like her getting Started.

The sun has already risen. If it wasn't for the embarrassing behavior of "stealing the teacher" secretly, the scenery of the blue sea, blue sky and white sand beach is quite refreshing.The fine sand on the beach was a bit hot to the feet. Director Zhao visually measured the distance from here to the city, and it was definitely not possible to walk there barefoot.

She looked at the people on the trestle bridge for a while doing business, and picked up a young female ship owner to talk to. There was a child who jumped off this ship just now.

"Hai washed the shoes, but I can't find them." As she spoke, she handed over a gold coin, indicating that she wanted to buy shoes.

There are always spares on the fishing boat. The female captain gave a pair of wooden slippers, but she insisted on not wanting gold coins, and kept waving and rejecting them.Director Zhao thought, it seems that the slippers are not worth 1 gold coin, so does this mean that there is no change and cannot be found, or is it worthless and no longer needed?

But you can't just take it and leave, so what's the matter?Seeing that the owner of the boat was busy taking the fish out of the pond and putting them on the deck while dealing with customers, she also jumped off the boat to help sort the fish, put the same fish together, identify the aquatic species in this world, and ponder Buy and sell conversations and transaction prices from around.

Crustaceans include conch, sea mussel, black-lip abalone, oyster, etc., which are common in tropical seas. Director Zhao tied up the flower crabs caught by Zhang Yawu with straw ropes, and divided the fish.The owner of the ship said a short word to her and handed her a pair of gloves, which she guessed might be "thank you" or "put it on".

With the gloves, it was easy to catch slippery conger eels and flower eels and throw them into a bucket.

In the pond, there are flat flounder, flying fish with pectoral fins like spreading wings, yellow pheasant with silver-white fin luteum, bright and festive red snapper, grouper with dense spots, which makes people dizzy when you look closely, which looks like a mallet, There are dull-headed tilefish, naked-breasted eels covered with net patterns and a fierce face... There are also ordinary-looking squid, pomfret and the like.

The rest were fishes that she could not name and had never seen before, some were stunningly beautiful, some were shockingly ugly, and their appearances were severely polarized.Trying not to touch the fins that might be poisonous, she would grab the tail of whichever one the guests wanted, smash its head on the strings of the boat, and immediately tell it to be obedient, and let it be taken away as soon as the rope is threaded.

Most people are enough to pick a few, probably enough for a whole family to eat for a day, and there are also people who come here with a two-wheeled cart made of tin. Fill the car full and calculate the money. The various aquatic products in such a car are about 5 to 10 gold coins.

The tipping amount of the couple yesterday was equivalent to the income of a small fishing boat for a hard night... Director Zhao evaluated the prices here and continued to observe.

Whether it is a boatman or a buyer, the women are dressed coolly, and the men are mostly shirtless. The young man in the one-piece white robe on the pier stands out. The person in the car came to look for him, and he would stop only after stuffing a silver coin into his hand.

Director Zhao guessed that he was either a tax officer or a "protection fee" collector, but saw that the man muttered something, raised his hand, and a layer of ice fell into the bottom of the car, and then followed the cart to collect the fish. Casting the spell again, another layer of ice slag covered the seafood properly—just like a walking ice-making and fresh-keeping machine.

Director Zhao: "..." That's right, there's nothing wrong with it, Pislan is a magical world, and her vision is narrow.

After a busy morning, she figured out the currency units and numbers. She also remembered the names of these aquatic products, including some common phrases. At last, she was not a saw-mouthed gourd, and she could guess with others. Exchange a few words back and forth.

The catches were all sorted and sold, and it was almost time to finish. The children of the boat owner finally came back from playing wildly, and were taught a good lesson by their mother with their heads down.Director Zhao wondered if her workload would be enough for a pair of slippers, so she could go, then the boat owner grabbed her, quickly tied up five prawns with a straw rope, and stuffed them into her hands. Thank you again and again.

Shrimp Gu is Shrimp Crawler, also known as Pippi Shrimp. It tastes delicious and is also a very popular aquatic product here. One with the length of a palm costs 1 silver coin. It’s hard for the captain to specially leave it to her... The kindness is hard to come by, Director Zhao said Accepted, anyway, breakfast is settled.

Pippi shrimp, let's go!

Director Zhao carried five shrimps and followed the flow of people. He didn't know until he was working that this was the silver sand beach east of Ufabi City, where fishing boats usually go out to sea.There is also a golden bay in the south of the city. In the "Peace Continent" game, it is the welfare map of the scenery party. In the real world, it seems to be a busy cargo port.

Yufabi City is very large in scale, tall palms and low iron trees can be seen everywhere, and the sand-colored brick walls and ivory-colored roof tiles are decorated vigorously. race, humans like her, dwarves with loud voices...

There was a vendor pushing a cart full of fresh coconuts into the city to remove the fur and peel them on the street. A tall man with the appearance of a soldier threw a few copper coins over, drank the coconut water in one gulp, broke it in half with bare hands, and then used bamboo Digging out the coconut meat with a spoon, eating it with relish... Director Zhao was so hungry after seeing it.

Residents along the street set up windows to water the flowers, and merchants set up stalls. There were bright yellow mangoes and bananas, green avocados and guavas, khaki sapodillas, and many unfamiliar and strange-looking fruits and plants for people to pick and choose. The warm and cheerful exotic style rushes towards you, and you can't help but immerse yourself in it with a bit of tourist mentality, and forget the dilemma of time travel for a moment.

"Old Pu, I'm going to buy that, and help me hold the shrimp..." Director Zhao turned around and realized that his wife was not by his side at this time.

The world is a big place, and there are always some unexpected changes. Only Pippi Shrimp is eternal.

She sighed, walked to a stall and picked two red lotus seeds that looked a bit like sweet peppers, and gave the stall owner a gold coin for change.The fruit stall owner handed back the gold coins again, pointed to the bunch of Pipi shrimps and said something, she recognized the number 5, the meaning of exchange, nodded, thinking that she could not cook the shrimps, it would be just right to exchange them .

The stall owner was overjoyed, and stuffed over a dozen lotus seeds in a row. Director Zhao picked them up in the hem of his pajamas, and waved goodbye to the enthusiastic stall owner.

Goodbye, Pipi Shrimp!

Let's have a lighter breakfast. Director Zhao casually wiped the fruit with his pajamas, took a bite and it was crisp and sweet, and he felt better again.

Walking in the market, she listened to bargaining, couples quarreling, children throwing tantrums... all kinds of voices, and then she repeated them in a low voice, figured it out, and gradually grasped some language rules.By the time she finds a simple small stage following the brisk singing, she can already express herself in simple sentences.

It can be seen that the stage was temporarily built by dismantling a carriage, with three sides open, and a simple cloth background painting hung on one side.

An elf male bard holds an 18-string lyre in his arms. His slender and white fingers slide over the exquisite body of the lyre, with golden tree and vine patterns wrapped around it. Then he plucks the shining strings with his fingertips. The sound is like the sound of nature and hits people's hearts directly.

"My love is a nightingale, awakened at the call of the dawn, and it sings sweetly when the sun's kiss falls to the bustling earth. My love is the lovely forest, and the swans swim on the quiet lake, Its white neck nods to the moonlight reflected in the water. My love is a home of ease, like a garden, filled with peace and happiness, and our mother listens to the chorus of birds..."

The elf's poetry has a beautiful rhyme, and the words have inflections, and he stepped down after singing.There were not many spectators around, about thirty or forty people, most of them voted one or two copper coins, and a few rich audiences wearing gold belts and silver only voted silver coins, and the rewards were thrown into the wooden box in front of the stage.There were also people throwing flowers and fruits, a big pineapple smashed in, and a few coins flew away with a bang... Director Zhao thought for a while, and threw seven or eight lotus seeds.

Immediately afterwards, a man and a woman came up to dance. Four musicians accompanied them with musical instruments similar to lute, violin, accordion and tambourine. A small orgasm.

The elf young man is probably the leader of this group of wandering entertainers, or the owner of the mobile stage, and he arranges the singing, dancing and playing...

Just here, try it, don't be cowardly.After eating the last lotus mist, Director Zhao patted the hem of his pajamas, took a deep breath and walked to the backstage—behind the background cloth. If you speak so politely when you sing, you won't be able to communicate.

The elf looked at the middle-aged human woman in front of him, but fortunately he opened his mouth and said plainly: "Do you want to go on stage? What song do you sing, let me listen to it first."

Director Zhao sang the well-known "Water Tune Getou: When Will the Moon Come?"

"No more?" After the song ended, the elf was a little surprised. Leaving aside the question of incomprehension, the gentle and mellow mezzo-soprano sounds very enjoyable, and the rhythm is also unique. "It's a very novel song, where did you learn it? Can you tell me what the lyrics mean?"

This... This touches the blind spot of my knowledge.The moon, the wine, the palace... How do you say it in the lingua franca of Pislan?Director Zhao stammered for a while, thinking he might as well admit that he is illiterate.

Then the question arises again, how do you say illiterate in the lingua franca of Pislan?

Director Zhao: "Uh...Missing...um..."

Elf: "Is it hard to explain? That's okay, but if you want to work here, you can only know one song, and the audience will get tired of it. Narrative poems, lyric poems, epic poems... you have to know more than a dozen songs in total. Just do it."

If you can understand more than a dozen songs, this is no problem, Director Zhao compared it as OK.

"Haha, you're pretty good, so let's get four or six points." The elf smiled and held the K of OK—that is, Director Zhao's middle finger, ring finger, and little finger, and shook the three fingers to express his acceptance of the proposal. "It doesn't matter how few songs you know, I'll just teach you."

You have to accept it, a fool would not accept it.As the boss of the mobile stage, he gets [-] or [-] points for his permanent artists. He gets [-] points, artists get [-] points, and if they are temporary artists, they get [-]/[-] points.The mezzo-soprano with a fresh, rare and pleasant song in front of me is only [-]% and [-]% to the boss. It's really a cash cow that comes to your door.

Director Zhao was pinched by OK's K, and he felt as if he had misunderstood something.

"My name is Kaxiu, welcome to join us." Kaxiu asked, "What's your name?"

Forget it, let me agree first, did he teach me to sing just now? This is really sleepy and someone will give you a pillow. It is a language teacher for nothing.Director Zhao smiled and said, "My name is Zhao Zhixin."

Kaxiu repeated the three words, and decided not to embarrass his tongue: "Then I will call you Zhao. Come with me first, and change your body... It looks good but it is not suitable for the stage effect—— By the way, what kind of animal is this painting?" He said, pointing to the pattern of Director Zhao's pajamas.

"...I don't know either." Director Zhao thought to himself, this is Garfield, and Lao Pu has Odie dog cartoon pajamas for couples...

"It's quite interesting. Let me see, um... it should be a cat or a tiger?" Kaxiu pondered for a while, and picked out a bright red dress after measuring her figure.

The skirt is adorned with exquisite piping, and large camellias adorn the shoulders to the waist. Director Zhao's style has changed drastically after he put it on, it is very elegant and luxurious.

Kaxiu put a feather-decorated cap on her again, "Okay, you go on stage and sing the final curtain call, it should be cheerful, exciting, the kind that can excite the audience, full of anticipation - will it ?”

From his beaming and dancing appearance, Director Zhao understood the general meaning, to mobilize his emotions, as long as she is not asked to sing the opera La Traviata.

She came onto the stage from the side with her skirt up, stood up to the standing microphone—let’s call it a microphone, this is probably Pislan’s amplifying alchemy prop—holding it, took a deep breath, and sang "Good Days" loudly. "!

"Hey~ the happy drums and gongs bring out the festivities every year, the beautiful dances bring joy every day, the oil paint of the sun makes today's day red, the flowers of life are our smiles, today is a good day, what is on my mind All children can become..."

The high-pitched singing immediately attracted more people. The audience didn't understand the meaning of the lyrics, but they understood the carefree and high-spirited appeal. They couldn't help smiling and stopped to listen.

The musicians behind the stage looked at each other, not knowing what song it was, but they were professional accompanists after all. After listening to the first bar, they immediately changed to trumpets, drums and other instruments to cater to it.

"...Tomorrow will be a good day again. I can't wait for my daughter's time. Today and tomorrow will be good days. When we catch up with the prosperous age, we can enjoy peace!"