Master Sculptor

Chapter 4

Li Hanlin learned from the flustered expressions in his big eyes that none of the people who ate this chicken survived the next day.Is this chicken poisonous?Li Hanlin was puzzled.Li Hanlin suddenly had a flash of inspiration when he heard the method of "removing cockscombs and bloodletting" proposed by his grandfather.It is not difficult to guess that the people who were abandoned here lived a life without a meal.Hungry people don't pay attention to details when they see food. Naturally, they can fill their stomachs as soon as possible.Perhaps just like the toxin residue from improper handling of salmon, the chicken itself also has a deadly factor.Presumably this poisonous substance exists in the cockscomb and blood.As for why he ate roosters but not hens, Li Hanlin couldn't figure it out.

But it doesn't matter, the thing to do now is to roast the chicken.

"Do you have any knives?" Li Hanlin looked at Big Eye while holding the dead chicken.

Big eyes anxiously said: "Can't eat."

Li Hanlin made a gesture to signal that he should not be nervous: "Look at mine, I have a way to eat it."

Big Eyes had already unconsciously felt dependent on Li Hanlin, seeing his swearing appearance, he relaxed a lot.Entering the room, a rusty blade was found from a pile of dark things.Li Hanlin rubbed off the rust with a stone, and secretly drew a picture on his arm.

"Will there be a fire?"

"Yes." Big Eyes was very excited that there was something he could help.

Li Hanlin carefully handled the chicken on hand, and when Big Eye started the fire, he built a simple grill with bamboo sticks.

Half an hour later, the big eyes and saliva were dripping and staring at the golden and oily roast chicken on the fire, as if he had been hooked.He looked at Li Hanlin who was calm and composed, and asked, "Is this all right?"

"Yes." Li Hanlin replied, he believed in his grandfather.

The smell of the roast chicken attracted many people, either because of their big eyes, or because of the toxicity of the chicken, no one wanted to get close to it.However, there are two exceptions, which are the children of a boy and a girl.The boy is about thirteen or fourteen years old, and his name is Xiong Wa. He should have begun to look like a teenager, but because of malnutrition, his bones and face still remain like a child.The girl is about 15 years old, her name is Hongmu, she is not short, but she is terribly thin, with sunken cheeks, protruding collarbone, and her whole body seems to be elongated forcibly, and it is like a living bamboo pole.

"It doesn't matter if you die from poison, at least you can have a good meal." Xiong Wa said to himself.

Hongmu looked at the grilled chicken with greedy eyes, but she quickly covered it up, and the hoarse voice in the period of voice change said: "If you don't live, nothing is meaningless." The desire to live surpasses everything, so Even unbearable hunger is nothing.

Li Hanlin slowly turned the roast chicken, glanced at the two children standing not far away from the corner of his eye, and asked, "Do you know each other?"

"I know," Dayan replied, "it's also a child who looks for food by himself."

"Aren't there many children?" When he went out today, most of the people he saw were middle-aged people, not even the elderly.

"Well, I can't survive. Unless there is an adult to lead, but the adult can't eat enough by himself, and can't take care of us."

Li Hanlin took off the grilled chicken and said, "I'll take you with me later."

With tears in his eyes, Dayan took a chicken leg handed over by Li Hanlin, choked up and speechless.

The taste of pure natural wild free-range chicken is so delicious that Li Hanlin has to give it a thumbs up even though he has seen a lot of delicacies.As for Big Eye, this was probably the most elegant eating in his life, he took small bites and chewed slowly, for fear that his rudeness would spoil this god-given delicacy.

Hongmu and Xiongwa were so hooked that they were so greedy that they were nailed in place, unable to move at all, as if a sniff from a distance would satisfy them.

After Li Hanlin finished eating a chicken wing, he waved at them and asked if they wanted to come too. He was always soft-hearted towards children.

"Sister," Xiong Wa sucked his saliva, with longing in his eyes, "he asked us to go there."

"Do you want to die?" Hongmu's cold voice made Xiongwa tremble all over, and he quickly woke up from the temptation.

Li Hanlin saw the two "thin bamboo poles" disappearing in a flash, so he had no choice but to give up.After the two finished packing a chicken, Li Hanlin decided to give Big Eye a bath. There was such a dark boy sitting opposite him, which really affected his appetite.

After rubbing for two full hours, Li Hanlin finally saw the original skin of Big Eye.She was fair, but had a dark yellow color caused by malnutrition, her cheeks were severely sunken, the ribs in her waist and abdomen were distinct, and her legs were like two toothpicks. Although they were straight, they were also terrifyingly thin.

"It seems to be a little smaller after washing." Li Hanlin said distressedly.

With big eyes and lips pursed, small hands tightly clenched the hem of Li Hanlin's clothes.

Leading back with satisfied big eyes, the two spent a leisurely afternoon.

+ + + + + +

In Glory City.

Today is the day when the market is open, and people come and go on the street.The merchant transported the goods and set up a stall in the market to do business.All kinds of wood carvings can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys.Customers stopped and went, some fiddled with some interesting gadgets in front of the booth, and some loudly bargained with the stall owner.

"...It took Master Haodan's closed disciple three months to carve it! Look at the lines and shape, how can you buy it for ten silver coins?" said the glib stall owner.

"Seven seven! No more! No matter how well carved it is, it won't take shape. It's just for display after all." That's true.Here, people are particularly keen on sculpture, but not for art appreciation, but for "shaping".If the finished product cannot be "transformed", then everything is meaningless.Those eliminated works will flow into the folks for people to trade.

"Hey! Cheng Chengcheng! Let me earn less!"

Lively transactions such as this are staged almost every month. Here, people have rich and lively expressions on their faces. Compared with the indifferent and numb people in the restricted area, it is a world apart.Obviously, this is a rich and lively city.

The lively business was going well, and suddenly, the crowd began to commotion.Large and small exclamations sounded, accompanied by the sound of inhaling one after another.

"Divine bird! Yes, the divine bird is here!"

"Ah—my lord!"

"What do I see?! It's really a god!"

"..."

People were both shocked and excited.I saw a huge fiery red bird hovering in mid-air, its beautiful and strong wings cut through the void, and its sparkling tail feathers danced in brilliant colors.A large part of the crowd fell to their knees, and they secretly watched the phoenix in the sky with awe-inspiring eyes. Even though they saw it with their own eyes, they still felt unbelievable.

So far, except for a few special people, no one has seen this phoenix that has been sleeping for more than six hundred years, but this does not prevent the public from knowing its existence and appearance.And people believed in the legends—

——The day the phoenix wakes up, when all things recover.

The author has something to say: I am too tired and can't bear it anymore.Good night.