"Chickie, chickie, turn around. Chickie, chickie, hop on one foot. Chickie, chickie, jump left and right. Chickie, chickie, jump forward and back. Chickie, chickie, jump up high. Chickie, chickie, touch your comb..."
The two children turning the rope kept singing while the child in the middle followed the nursery rhyme's motions.
After completing every motion, the children turning the rope sang loudly, "Chickie, chickie, you jumped well. Chickie, chickie, please step out."
That child jumped out, and the second child entered, beginning to jump along with the nursery rhyme.
Everyone looked at one another.
"Looks like this is the game we have to play," Song Baige said.
"Fangfang, compared with passing through the city gate, is this game easier or harder?" Li Qingxian asked with a smile.
Fangfang tilted her head and thought for a while. "Easy at first, hard later. One is easy, many are hard."
Everyone pondered silently, unable to tell exactly where the difficulty lay.
"Let's practice first, then have Fangfang lead us home." As Li Qingxian spoke, he took a thick hemp rope from the Heaven-and-Earth Bracelet.
"I'm convinced." Everyone did not know whether to laugh or cry. They had never expected Li Qingxian to have even this prepared.
They took turns swinging the rope and jumping it. With the basic abilities of cultivators, they quickly got the hang of it.
"Alright, we're ready to begin," Li Qingxian said.
"The children's rope-swinging is a little faster now than it was at the start. You wouldn't notice without watching carefully," Wang Buwu said.
"Better to play early than late," Song Baige said.
Li Qingxian picked Fangfang up. "Little sister, we'll take your usual route. Point the way."
"This one!" Fangfang pointed toward a path beside the main road, where children were also jumping long rope.
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