Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 4 Inheritance
The Li family's old house was built on the earth dam of Horseshoe Bay.

The reason why it is called Horseshoe Bay is that it was washed by the mountain torrents in the forest area and the stream river, which made a U-shaped river channel out of the mountain near the meadow, and the stream river surrounded by an earth dam shaped like a horseshoe.

Li Hongbing climbed up the six-meter-high sloping grass holding the pups who were tired of running and sticking out their tongues.

The old house is close at hand.

The wooden fence is covered with withered loofah vines, and several rotten old loofahs are hung.

Push open the courtyard door and enter.

The old house in the dream coincides with the real old house.

That's great, it's still the same.

It is a standard rural courtyard house, with a vegetable garden in the front and a main room in the back, and a straight stone road inside the gate leading to the front yard.

On both sides of the stone road covered with dead leaves, on the right is a vegetable garden covering an area of ​​one mu, and on the left is a pond with various fruit trees planted beside it.

No one took care of it for a long time, the vegetable garden was overgrown with weeds, the pond was covered with leaves, and the branches and leaves of the fruit trees were overgrown.

Walk along the stone road to the rice field in the front yard.

The old oak tree that haunts Li Hongbing is planted between the pond and the warehouse.

I heard that my grandfather chose to stay away from Caogou Village and settle in Horseshoe Bay because of this old oak tree.

In the words of his old man, if there is a green dragon tree in his family, it is not difficult for his children and grandchildren to get rich.

Standing under the old oak tree with a diameter of one meter and a height of more than 40 meters, Li Hongbing touched the wrinkled and rough bark and looked up at the canopy like a big umbrella.

Old man, you've grown up again.

As long as Li Hongbing can remember, it has always existed, but every year there are very few results, only a dozen or so here and there.

Every autumn, the old oak tree bears thumb-long acorns, which fall off by themselves when ripe.

Grandpa collected the fallen acorns, boiled them with herbs and put them in the sun to dry.

However, dried acorns are very bitter to eat, just like drinking traditional Chinese medicine.

Moreover, Grandpa Acorn only let Li Hongbing eat it, and if others wanted to eat it, he would swear at him.

As a result, Li Hongbing always believed that his grandfather punished himself with bitter acorns because he didn't like him.

After bidding farewell to the old oak tree, Li Hongbing continued to walk towards the main room.

The paddy field in the front yard is about the size of a basketball court. When I was a child, whenever I ate, the dining table would be placed on the paddy field. The canopy of the old oak tree above my head provided shade, and the cool breeze blowing from the meadow was very comfortable.

Passing through the rice field is a pure wooden house. The main structure of the house is made of logs with a diameter of half a meter.

There are two main rooms in the middle, side rooms on both sides, and the kitchen, firewood shed, utility room, warehouse, barn and cellar on the outermost side.

I heard from my father that the wood used to build this wooden house is the wood that my grandfather cut from the mountains with his own hands.

For this reason, when Li Hongbing was a child, he still had low self-esteem for a long time. Everyone in the village lived in decent tile-roofed houses, but he still lived in a wooden house.

Like the mountain people, what a shame.

Now it seems that grandpa is wise.

More than 20 years later, the wooden house still retains its quaint appearance, and it does not appear dilapidated due to wind and rain, but presents a different sense of historical vicissitudes.

Standing on the bluestone steps of the main room, looking back at the entire yard, Li Hongbing was filled with emotion.

My childhood life before the age of 12 is all here.

Ow!Ow!
The pups were playing and playing in the leg-deep vegetable garden weeds, their bodies were covered in quill balls, and their itchy bellies were rubbing against the sky.

Li Hongbing turned around and groped around the eyebrow of the main room door.

found a key.

Unlock the door and enter.

The cabinets, seats and benches in the main room are all wrapped in plastic film, and the bedding in the bedroom is also specially packed in compressed bags.

It seems that Dad often comes back to tidy up the old house.

Li Hongbing sighed slightly, "I will take root here in the future."

Roll up your sleeves, get towels, mops, and a bucket of water from the well, and start cleaning.

I was busy working until the sun went down, and then I cleaned the old house inside and out, which made my sub-healthy body even more exhausted, so that I really didn't have the energy to clean the front and back yards.

At dinner time, Li Hongbing was too tired to do anything, and took out bread and ham sausage from his backpack to deal with the puppies.

into the night.

Lying on the bed, Li Hongbing saw the animal patterns carved on the side of the bed with nails when he was a child.

Can't help but smile knowingly.

It feels so good to be home.

It was late at night outside the window.

The melodious song of the nightingale is mixed with the mournful cry of the night owl.

When Li Hongbing was a child, whenever he heard a night owl calling at night, he would be so frightened that he dared not go to the toilet.

After Grandpa found out, he went to the woods in silence, but he never heard the night owl calling again.

When the friends in the village were playing together, a child boasted that he had picked up many night owls in the woods and ate meat for several days, which made Li Hongbing envious.

Think of grandpa.

Li Hongbing's drowsiness disappeared completely.

How to describe it!
He is a very serious and strange person. He doesn't eat meat and is only a vegetarian. He keeps a straight face all day long, as if everyone in the world has offended him, but the adults in the village respect him when they see him, and the children tremble when they see him.

Even the old man left Caogou Village with his mother and sister because he couldn't stand his grandfather's weird temper.

However, grandpa knows medical skills, and he is still very good. Anyone who is sick from all over the world will come to him.

When Grandpa passed away, Caogou Village was crowded with people. It took 108 people to carry the coffin, and they were all famous people in the forest area. The scene was so grand.

But for some reason, Grandpa never let Li Hongbing study medicine.

I often put a word on my lips, it is useless to study medicine, and to cure people is not to rule the world.

This made Li Hongbing very puzzled, unable to figure out what relationship between governing people and governing the world.

Forget it, I don't want to.

Tomorrow morning, I will visit the graves of grandpa and grandma.

……

midnight.

Crackling!

There was a sound of leaves shaking outside the house, as if being hit by raindrops on the leaves.

Li Hongbing thought it was raining, so he hurriedly got up and closed the window.

You can go to the window and look out.

The moonlight is shining, the vegetation is spring, and it looks like it is raining.

But the shaking of the leaves became louder and louder.

My heart couldn't help but thump.

Is there a bear.

I heard from my father that since the Qinbalin area was designated as a nature reserve, there have been more wild animals in the forest. Wild boars, bears, foxes, and badgers often come to the village to look for food.

Li Hongbing grabbed the stick, opened the door and went out.

The four puppies sleeping soundly at the corner of the bed heard the movement and followed behind.

There are no big trees near the old house, and the nearest Laolinzi is still a few miles away from the old house.

The sound of rustling leaves can only be an old oak tree.

Get out of the bedroom.

In the moonlight, the huge body of the old oak tree stood like a giant with outstretched arms in the darkness.

Li Hongbing looked up from the tree trunk until he could barely see the top of the tree until his neck could no longer be tilted back.

what!
A green spot of light on the top of the tree caught Li Hongbing's attention.

Sudden.

That green spot of light fell from the top of the tree and slowly descended under Li Hongbing's gaze.

It was too late to dodge until it could be seen clearly that it was an acorn fruit glowing green.

The acorn hit the center of the eyebrow.

Snapped!
Disappeared after a ball of green light was scattered.

Li Hongbing still kept his head up, as if time was frozen.

The four pups, Jane, noticed Li Hongbing's abnormality, showed their fine teeth, and let out a low growl.

……

The sky is bright.

Caogou Village ushered in a new day.

Birds of all kinds sang melodiously.

Li Hongbing slowly opened his eyes, two green lights flashed through his pupils, followed by surprise, the world in his sight became brighter, and a piece of information floated in his mind.

That's it!

That oak fruit turned out to be a mysterious druid inheritance.

In the 1st century AD, the Roman Empire launched a massive crusade against the Celts. At the same time, the Druids were also destroyed.

Just when the Romans invaded the druid's megalithic temple, the high priest handed the only remaining druid's sacred object [oak fruit] to the goshawk, and let him fly away from the flames of war with the holy object.

Goshawk traveled all the way across the ocean and came to the strange eastern continent. After exhaustion, he fell into a forest with an oak fruit.

time lapse.

The oak fruit broke out of its shell, and grew from a sapling to a towering tree, waiting silently for the successor of the druid to appear, but who knew that it was occupied by a young man halfway and kept in captivity.

Li Hongbing sweated profusely on his forehead.

That young man seems to be Grandpa Li Batou.

And I was able to get the druid inheritance because I ate oak fruit since I was a child, and was contaminated with the natural fruit flavor, which caused the old oak to think that there was a new druid successor, and sent out the druid inheritance.

Druid!

Li Hongbing has only played in World of Warcraft. He can resist, fight, heal, and transform into various forms of beasts.

In fact, the druid inheritance is not as powerful as imagined.

It only gives the successor a heart of nature, and for the druid apprentice who has obtained the heart of nature, the mentor will store the druid knowledge in the mind of the apprentice through soul teaching.

However, Li Hongbing's embarrassment is that he has no mentor, so to put it bluntly, he is a wild druid.

Sinking your mind, there is a mung bean-sized heart wrapped in your heart.

This is the heart of nature.

The source of power for druids.

Can anyone tell me how to use this thing! !
……

Ow!Ow! !

The four pups woke up from their sound sleep when they heard the movement, and circled around Li Hongbing shaking their heads.

As a Druid, Li Hongbing could feel the cub's nostalgia for him.

On a whim, he squatted down, picked up a puppy with a white flower on its head, and tried to communicate with the puppy.

next second.

The heart of nature split a ray of green light into the pup's body.

With the injection of green light, the pup's body became significantly bigger, and his eyes became brighter and more agile.

Li Hongbing tried to speak.

"sit down."

The white-flowered puppy sat down obediently.

effective.

It turns out that injecting the heart of nature into the body of an animal can improve the intelligence of the animal.

Li Hongbing was in high spirits, and continued to give orders to the white dog cubs.

"stand up."

"Paws out."

"Open your mouth."

Under the orders one after another, the white-flowered puppy executed all the actions perfectly.

Great.

Even if he is unemployed, being an animal trainer is more than enough.

Next.

Inject green light into the remaining three puppies in turn.

After finishing all this, Li Hongbing stood up.

Suddenly his legs went limp, his eyes turned black, and he sat slumped on the ground, with waves of exhaustion sweeping through his whole body, as if he was out of strength.

Then a message appeared in my mind again.

The heart of nature is also known as the heart of the origin of all things. It grows by absorbing the origin of all things in nature, and can also feed back the power of the source to all things.

So that's the case! !
I quickly sank into my mind, and found that the heart of nature, which was the size of a mung bean, had become as big as a sesame seed.

Excessive loss of original power.

Li Hongbing secretly rejoiced that there were only four pups, if there were a few more, they might become vegetative directly.

Rest for a while, the body has a little strength.

Standing up with difficulty, he walked back to the bedroom step by step with a wooden stick, fell on the bed, and fell asleep.

In the air, countless invisible green light spots penetrated into Li Hongbing's body, merged into the heart of nature,

……

(End of this chapter)