奇幻玄幻小说《SINCITY》是作者““乱世封烟”诚意出品的一部燃情之作，李察李察两位主角之间虐恋情深的爱情故事值得细细品读，主要讲述的是：Spring.This is a joyful season. After a long winter, people can finally start a new year without having to endure the cold. Food is easier to get and ...
Chapter 1 Growth 试读章节
Spring.
This is a joyful season. After a long winter, people can finally start a new year without having to endure the cold. Food is easier to get and the variety is gradually enriched. So when winter goes and spring comes, it is the most important festival of the year. Not only humans, dwarves, orcs, elves and even ogres put the most important celebration in spring.Of course, the world is so complicated that there will always be exceptions, such as the residents of the underground world, and spring is almost meaningless to them. Exceptions can go to extremes, such as the Snow Demon, which hates spring the most. Anyway, for most human beings, spring is always pleasant.
When the warm and humid airflow struggled over the coastal mountains and arrived in Rutherland village, people in the village knew that spring was coming again.
Rutherland, located at the foot of the coastal mountain range, is an insignificant spot in this huge mountain range that stretches across Wan Li, and it is also one of tens of thousands of human settlements. It belongs to Baron Tucker and is also the territory of the holy alliance Empire. But even in terms of linear distance, Baron Tuckers castle is nearly 300 kilometers away from here. Only when the harvest is in autumn every year will people in the village see the barons tax collector.Only at this time did the Lord have a negligible sense of existence. The barons tax is very light, just collecting some unique local products in the mountains, which has little impact on the daily life of the villagers. However, the output of the village is limited, and if the tax impact is greater, it will involve the issue of survival.
Life in the mountains is actually not difficult, as long as you work hard for one year.
As soon as spring comes, the land outside the village needs to be turned over and planted with food that can be harvested next summer. Hunters began to enter the forest. At this time, the Warcraft who had been hungry for a winter in the depths of the forest gradually woke up and began to feed. They become very dangerous and aggressive. However, some special products of Warcraft, such as some glands that can be used as precious medicinal materials or spices, can only be sold at the highest price at this time when the color is the best.At this time of year, hunters will be killed or injured, but every year hunters will enter the mountains as usual. Therefore, in Rutherland village, the goddess of forest and hunting gets the most beliefs. You know, besides the eternal dragon, there are as many gods and beliefs on the mainland of Nohrlander as the stars overhead.
Nohrlander mainland is a land rich in products, a land advocating strength and a land with strict hierarchy. Even a remote and quiet village like Rutherland is deeply branded with the times. The villagers are simple and sincere, but they also respect the strong and despise the weak. There are only dozens of small villages, but they also have a hidden level.
A small figure appeared outside the village. It was a boy with a laundry basket almost as high as himself on his back, filled with breadfruit. In spring, the reserves of a winter have been basically exhausted, and when the new crops have not yet been harvested, this tasteless fruit is an important ration. It is easy to get, just go to the Woods near the village to pick it up.
Behind the little boy, three teenagers who were a whole head taller than him appeared together. They carry hunting bows and forks in their hands, short knives in their waists, and prey such as deer and rabbits on their backs. Although they are less than ten years old, they can go hunting in the mountains. Of course, their prey is not Warcraft, but some tame animals, and the way to hunt is mainly to rely on traps, but this is not easy. At this time, most of the children of civilians and nobles in towns are still studying and practicing under the wings of their parents.
Suddenly, the boy in charge shouted, "Hi, Richard, wheres your father? Didnt he teach you to hunt? Im your age, but Ive gone into the mountains alone to set traps to catch rabbits! "
A boy next to him smiled and said, "A child without a father can only pick fruit!"
The three big boys laughed and crossed the little boy and ran to the village. They walked easily, but they didnt see that everyone had brought dozens of kilograms of prey. The little boy ignored the ridicule, but continued to carry his laundry list to the village. A middle-aged strong man sitting at the entrance of the village had seen everything in his eyes. He waved to the little boy and called him over. Then he put a piece of air-dried Warcraft jerky in the boys hand, fondly rubbed his head and asked, "Little Richard, Piru, arent you angry that they bullied you like this?" When I turn around, my uncle will teach them a lesson. Even children cant talk too much. "
Unexpectedly, the little boy shook his head and said, "No, Im not angry." "But ..." The man scratched his hair with his rough, dark hands, which was somewhat difficult to understand. He thought he was afraid of those big boys and couldnt help but want to say a few words. Children in the mountains can lack everything except courage.
I didnt know the little boy smiled and said, "I dont have a father, but I have the best mother!"
" After listening to this sentence, the man can only continue to hold his head, smile foolishly and say, "Thats right, thats right."
The little boy was humming, carrying a big basket and skipping towards the village. At this time, little Richards heart had already been swept away and he became happy again. Because his mother told him to make himself very happy at any time.
This year, little Richard was six years old. At the age of six, he learned to be happy.
The middle-aged man named Bobby is a blacksmith in the village, and the boys mother is said to be a magic apprentice. When she came to Rutherland village alone, little Richard in her arms was still in its infancy. That is a woman who is not very beautiful in appearance, but gentle as water. Her arrival has brought a brand-new atmosphere to the small village of Rutherland. For the first time, there is a doctor in the village, so you dont have to go to the town dozens of kilometers away for a minor illness or pain, or just endure it and wait for it to recover naturally.
Her name is Elaine, and she opened a small pharmacy near the village. Although she can only make the most elementary medicine, she saved more than one villagers life in the first year. So the village head and elders decided to give Elaine a piece of land and formally accept her as a member of Rutherland. In the small village of Rutherland, there are hunters at most, and there are only three professionals, that is, blacksmith, Elaine, who is also a doctor, and the village head of a retired petty officer. These three people supported the operation of the whole village.
Life in Rutherland village is calm and slow, time passes unconsciously, and in a blink of an eye, it is a new spring.
Little Richard has grown more than ten centimeters, and looks like an eight-or nine-year-old child. According to the tradition of Rutherland village, he should have learned to make and lay traps to hunt rabbits and other small herbivorous Warcraft. In a forest not far from Rutherland village, there are many such small Warcraft, while the large Warcraft is almost gone. Its a reservation for training children in the village. Hunters never hunt small animals there, but they will patrol regularly to clean up the dangerous large Warcraft that occasionally breaks in deep in the forest.However, every few days, little Richard will still carry a laundry list up the mountain. The laundry list on his back doesnt look so out of proportion, but it shows that he is still picking fruit. Bread fruit is not delicious, and the mountains are everywhere. People in the village prefer delicious Warcraft meat. Even if you dont consider the taste, it will last you a long time.
However, Richard still has to pick fruit at the age when he started hunting, which is his mothers request. Not only that, he also collected four kinds of herbs each season by the way, and then processed them according to the established and complicated process. Half of the process should be completed when the herbs are collected, while the other half should be done after returning home. What he doesnt understand is that breadfruit should be treated similarly, and the process and time consumption are much more. No one in the village has ever done this. Bread fruit is the easiest food to get. When it is ripe, it will naturally fall to the ground in one night, and you can pick it up and eat it directly.
However, my mother asked that breadfruit should not be picked on the ground, but should be picked from the trunk. The selected size and color have fixed requirements, and the picking technique is also special. Richard didnt understand why, and he didnt feel any difference in the taste of breadfruit brought back by special methods, but as long as he didnt pick breadfruit as required, his mother would pick it out. After several reprimands, little Richard stopped playing tricks, but took every tedious step seriously. It was not until winter that he could no longer pick breadfruit that his mother told him that this was to let him have perseverance.
This year, little Richard was seven years old. At the age of seven, he remembered to be persistent. If there is anything unpleasant in the memory of seven years old, it is that every dinner is breadfruit. This little incident eventually became one of the lingering nightmares in his childhood.
With the arrival of new spring, Rutherland village is still the same. Bobby the blacksmith is still single, Elaines pharmacy business has not improved, the village head is still strong, and every time there is a tough Warcraft, he is at the forefront.
Richard can finally learn to set traps. At this time, Piru and others have started to carry short bows and follow the hunters in the village into the mountains. Crossing the threshold of ten years old, they can already be called teenagers, and their tall and straight bodies in the city will make people mistakenly think that they are fifteen or sixteen years old.
Laying traps is a science, which requires rich experience, a pair of observant eyes, a pair of dexterous hands and some luck. With only simple tools, except experienced hunters, novices are likely to hurt themselves when creating traps. Little Richard is very talented in learning. For the first time, he showed the advantage of overwhelming the teenagers in the same village, and the trap laid on the first day was a great success, which was praised by the adults in the whole village. Bobby the blacksmith told everyone that he was as happy as if Richard were his own son.But his mind is known to almost everyone in the village. If Richard can call him his father, it is estimated that Bobby will be willing to close the forge.
A few days have passed, and Richard has mastered several traps. He began to enter the depths of the reservation and set several large compound traps. There are occasional large-scale Warcraft haunts here, and he wants to try his luck. Richard was lucky. A Kamchatka boar appeared in sight and ran into a trap. The animal clamp composed of thorns, vines and nails firmly clamped it.Although the wild boar is very powerful, Richards trap is exquisite in workmanship, and all aspects of the force balance are handled very well. After a burst of crazy pulling and shaking, it still hasnt escaped. Richard, who was hiding in the side to observe, was nervous and sweaty, and the hunting knife in his hand was not so reliable for the first time. The injured wild boar is very dangerous. Although Kamchatka wild boar is small in size and courage, he is only a child.
Just as Richard determined that his prey could not break free at the moment and was ready to rush out, suddenly there was a strong force behind him and he was pushed out hard. Richard fell heavily on the ground, only feel very dizzy, more than a wisp of fishy smell in his mouth and nose. He heard a bowstring ring, and then the screams of wild boar. A few cheers sounded nearby, and the voice was very familiar.
Richard got up slowly and saw Piru show up with three teenagers. Just now, one of them pushed him out. And Piru, with a hunting bow in his hand, is looking at the poor Kamchatka boar triumphantly. An arrow is stuck in the neck of the wild boar. It is not easy to hit the key with an arrow, even if you are trapped in a trap. That wild boar has been jumping around and arching wildly.
"You robbed my prey!" Richard suddenly understood what they were going to do and shouted angrily.
"People here can prove that I shot the wild boar. What do you mean by robbery? Just because you set a trap, good hunters know that this trap is only used to catch rabbits. " Piru said slowly, looking at Richard disdainfully.
He is nearly a head taller than Richard, and his physique is obviously strong. Moreover, his strength is actually greater than that of his peers, almost equal to that of an adult. This is because Piru is the son of the village chief. As a retired petty officer, the village chief can often hunt some powerful Warcraft from the mountains. Eating this kind of Warcraft meat is very useful for strengthening the body.
"Then why did you come here to shoot wild boar?" Richard asked Piru to be speechless. They look down on Richards thinness, but they have to admit that Richard is really smart. It is said that he can write a lot of words. However, these teenagers in Piru didnt respect Richard because of this. They can write and cant be used for hunting. Why do they know so many words?
But Richards rhetorical question made Piru feel very angry. He waved his hand severely, and a teenager around him went around behind Richard and pushed him hard to the ground.
Richard got up, his face flushed bright red, and his hand held the hunting knife tightly. At that moment, the momentum of generate made several teenagers feel a deep chill inexplicably! The hunting knife didnt come out in the end. After a moment of hesitation, Piru had kicked him in the stomach. The teenagers swarmed and snatched the hunting knife, and then there was a punching and kicking. Piru stepped on Richards head and crushed his face deeply into the soil!
Young people in the mountains have plenty of strength in their bones. Its really a hard fight. Richard didnt struggle or beg for mercy, just silently endured it. The more he fought, the more angry he became, and the heavier he laid hands on him. All he felt from Richards silent reaction was contempt.
"Still refuses to accept? Not satisfied? " Teenagers are also working harder and harder. Richard is like a body that is not his own at all, just letting them beat him. It didnt take long for Piru to get scared. He was afraid that he would really hurt Richard, and he would definitely get a good beating when he got home. The village chiefs temper is as hot as his strength, and Elaines reputation in the village has always been very good.
The teenagers also gradually stopped, and it took Richard a while to get up slowly. Pilu dropped a few malicious words and walked away with the wild boar. When they were completely gone, little Richard sat down under the tree and took a long rest before struggling to stand up and walk home.
In the evening, Elaine looked at little Richard covered in bruises, and tears came out unwillingly. Instead, the boy comforted her and said that it was nothing, just a little painful. After taking the medicine, the boy looked at his mother and asked, "Still cant fight back?"
"hmm!" Elaine gritted her teeth and nodded hard.
"Ok, I wont fight back, but I wont give in."
In the following days, Piru made trouble with Richard several times, and the process was nothing more than a severe beating. But the heaviest time, until all the people were tired, Richard couldnt get up completely, and Piru didnt wait for the boy to give in and beg for mercy, or even heard a moan. And every time they are tired and ready to go, Richard will get up slowly and look at Piru quietly. The calm eyes suddenly made Piru feel cold from the deepest part of his heart. That look, its like looking at the dead.
From this year on, Piru began to have nightmares. Later, every time Richard was beaten, he would have nightmares for several days. Richard has never struggled, Piru is getting stronger and stronger, and the size gap between the two people is even widening. But every time I see Richard, Piru will see the boys calm eyes, and then it will be a nightmare for several days. One thing Piru cant understand is why Richard didnt complain to his father. If the boy did this, then Piru would get whipped at least a few times. But from beginning to end, Richard never mentioned the beating to anyone in the village.
Teenagers find Richard less and less trouble. When once the boy smiled at them with blood on his mouth, the teenagers dispersed in a hubbub. That was the last time they picked on Richard.
At the age of eight, Richard learned to be tough.
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