Chapter 4: The Fisherman and the Orion
Who knew that as soon as the fishing net landed, the "dead baby" in the net actually cried out with a "wow".
The fisherman surnamed Li chuckled in his heart and scolded: "Who killed a thousand knives? Throwing his girl into the river in broad daylight, it's really hard to die!"
Within hundreds of miles, the river level is gentle, there are never treacherous wind and waves, few people will fall into the water from the ferryboat, and it is impossible for this little newborn baby to run into the river on its own. Then there is only one possibility - Xiaotong's family disliked her as a baby girl, and deliberately threw her into the river while she was just born.
On an April day, the river was cold, and although the boy was still alive, he couldn't stand the cold. The fisherman surnamed Li climbed ashore in three steps and two steps, untied the fishing net, reached out to pick up the child, and quickly opened the swaddling clothes.
The scene in front of him surprised him again, and it was a baby boy who was crying, his whole body was cold, his skin was blue and black, as if he was frozen, but fortunately, his belly was flat, and it seemed that the river water had not been poured into his abdomen.
The little fisherman and the hunter who followed behind him were also stunned, secretly surprised!
Orion stepped forward, quickly untied the leopard skin from his shoulder, wrapped the sleek child, saw the child's face was bruised, crying to death, skillfully held it in his arms, and gently patted the child's back with one hand. The little boy slowly stopped crying, the black qi in his whole body slowly faded, and a pair of dark eyes stared at Orion's black and translucent face without blinking.
Orion grinned innocently. There was a hint of a smile on the child's face.
The thin fisherman patted the fisherman surnamed Li on the shoulder and said: "Brother Li is very blessed, he was able to save a baby boy from the river, since this is the case, it is better to take it back and raise it, maybe, when you are old, this little boy can still be filial to you." ”
The fisherman surnamed Li saw that the little boy was moving his hands and feet, not like he was seriously ill, and while he was surprised that the little boy was so big, he thought about which village the little boy would be from upstream, and why he was thrown into the river. Hearing this, he smiled bitterly: "Brother, where are you, my five little ghosts, one is more naughty than the other, and every day your sister-in-law is anxious and full of complaints, if you bring back another one, won't you scold me to death?"
His heart moved, and he said: "Since my brother mentioned it, why don't you take it away and raise it yourself, this little boy will not die if he falls into the river, and there will be a blessing in the future!"
The thin fisherman hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Big brother doesn't know, my wife is a tigress at all, if I take the risk of taking this little guy back, she will definitely say that this is a wild seed that I gave birth to with other women outside, maybe how to deal with me!
"What are you afraid of, brother, can't I testify to you at that time? What's more, there are only three girls in your family, and this kid can still support his sisters when he grows up, and give you two a family of old age to die. The fisherman surnamed Li glared at him and said.
The thin fisherman took the little boy from Orion's hand, looked at it again and again, seemed to have a hint of emotion, thought about it, and finally shook his head and refused: "My brother and I often fish together, and the relationship has always been good, and the eldest brother thinks she will believe your words? Besides, I don't know where this little boy came from, what if we get into trouble?"
As soon as the words fell, the little boy let out a "wow" and cried. No matter how the skinny fisherman tossed, he just couldn't stop the boy's crying. The skinny fisherman handed the child to the fisherman surnamed Li, and the child still cried!
The fisherman surnamed Li returned the child to Orion again, but he didn't expect that as soon as the child arrived in Orion's arms, he instantly stopped crying.
The little fisherman smiled and said, "Brother Zhou, it seems that this little boy is very close to you, why don't you take him away and adopt him!" The fisherman surnamed Li echoed on the side, and the two persuaded Orion to take the child away.
Orion couldn't refuse, and seeing that the sky was getting dark, and he still had dozens of miles of mountain roads to go, he thought about it in his heart, and said in a loud voice: "The three of us were able to meet this little boy, and it was also fate, so naturally we couldn't leave it alone." There is only a two-month-old child in the younger brother's family, and the mountain wife is kind-hearted, and must not be blamed, in this case, the child will be brought home to raise for the time being, and if someone asks about the whereabouts of the child because of today's events in the future, please ask the two brothers to tell that the younger brother is a native of Hanquan Village under Funiu Mountain, called Zhou Jinpeng. ”
This person looks rough and rude, and when he speaks, he is actually reasonable.
The two fishermen even claimed that the fisherman surnamed Li quickly used two wicker sticks to string seven or eight foot-long herring fish, hung them on Zhou Jinpeng's hunting fork, smiled, and said: "Brother, don't worry, if anyone asks about the whereabouts of this little boy, the two of us will naturally let him go to my brother." ”
Zhou Jinpeng nodded at the two of them, didn't say much, took off the gray cloth burden hanging on his shoulders, put the little boy wrapped in the leopard skin on his shoulders into the baggage, hung it around his neck, turned around, and strode forward. Seeing that he had stepped into a flat avenue, he suddenly walked like a fly, and after a while, there was dust behind him. This man is as fast as a galloping horse, and he doesn't seem to be an ordinary hunter.
Seeing the hunters go away, the two fishermen put away their nets and walked towards the village together.
That night, in Wan'an Town, dozens of miles away, there were bursts of beast roars, accompanied by people crying and dogs barking, and they became a mess. On the second day, the whole town was shocked to find a white-fronted hanging tiger, three green wolves, and a black python five or six feet long wandering back and forth on the streets of the town as if no one was around.
And among the people who took away the "Evil Star" from Ye Cheng's house yesterday, all the men who had personally hugged the "Evil Star" died tragically under the minions of several fierce beasts without exception. Especially the man in black who was the leader, four out of a family of six were swallowed by the giant beetle, leaving only two elderly people who were too frightened.
These fierce beasts and poisonous insects gathered outside Ye Cheng's grass house, divided into three groups, hostile to each other, and seemed to want to enter the grass house, but they were afraid of the things in the grass house.
Although a few beasts no longer took the initiative to attack the residents, they also caused panic in the whole town, and the only few shops and restaurants in the town were closed because of this. Even children playing in the streets are kept under the watchful eye of adults, locked in their homes, and not allowed to go out.
Although there were dozens of hunters in Wan'an Town, they could see that the tiger wolf python was far different from ordinary beasts and insects, not only did they not dare to step forward to drive them away, but instead restrained the neighbors from staying away from the Ye family, so as not to disturb a few beasts and insects. And those Shiba Inu dogs who will bark wildly when someone passes by on weekdays are even more frightened lying on the ground and trembling, and the majesty of the past is gone!
No one can guess what these beasts will do next, and whether more beasts will emerge from the deep mountains and dense forests next. One by one, they hid in their homes, cursing the damn "evil star," drowning in the river and still harming the villagers! There are also many people who are secretly glad that when they sank the "evil star" into the river that day, they did not force themselves to come out and hug it!
On that day, the eighth uncle who made the decision in front of everyone and took the "evil star" Shen Jiang, was afraid that the tiger and wolf would come to the door, and under the fright, he would die with a whimper!
Even though he had read the books of sages for a long time and was knowledgeable, he couldn't guess how a few tigers and wolves could appear in Wan'an Town like they fell from the sky, and why they bit to death the few men who had hugged the children that day.
Of course, if there were immortal cultivators in the town, they might be able to see that the black qi that rushed out of the body of a child and then entered the bodies of several men one after another was a rare kind of evil qi in the world! For some fierce beasts, if they could obtain a trace of evil qi, they might be able to become spirits and demons.
These tiger wolves naturally sensed the Tiangang evil qi emanating from the body of the child because of excessive fear, so they came to Wan'an Town.
For more than 1,000 years, since the head of the Yuxu Dao cultivated the supreme supernatural power in the main peak of Taiyue Mountain, "Yuding Mountain", subdued demons and subdued demons, preached the Dharma, and set up the Yuding Gate, the disciples and mountain guardians would often go down the mountain to inspect, restrain the wolves, insects, tigers and leopards in the mountain, and not enter the densely populated villages and towns without authorization. Such a strange scene in Wan'an Town can be said to be something that has never been encountered in hundreds of years.
Fortunately, those tiger wolves only destroyed the grass hut where Ye Cheng lived in the end, and then they left Wan'an Town one after another and ran into the deep mountains and dense forests.
As the saying goes, good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, and the movement in Wan'an Town soon spread all over the country. The two fishermen who fished out the child from the river were naturally frightened, and the two secretly discussed it without telling their families, and finally did not dare to tell the news that the "evil star" was not dead, causing great trouble to the two.
As for the hunter named Zhou Jinpeng, the thin fisherman only crossed him in a small boat in the middle of the river a few times, and he did not have a deep friendship, so naturally he would not go to the deep mountains dozens of miles away to inform him about this.
The flowers bloom and fall, and eight years pass in a blink of an eye. Wan'an Town has long since returned to its former peace, and no one wants to mention that "evil star" anymore, even Ye Cheng's two brothers thought that he had already drowned and buried him deep in their hearts.
In troubled times, even if there are fierce beasts raging, there are still many inconspicuous small villages hidden in the deep mountains and dense forests, and Hanquan Village is one of them.
The small village is built on the hill and is famous for its springs. Dozens of thatched huts and hundreds of earthen kilns are dotted in a relatively flat place. On the right side of the village, a small stream with a width of two zhang meanders and flows, irrigating dozens of acres of thin fields. The source of the stream is the one that is the size of an acre, bottomless, and constantly protrudes a spring of blue spring water.
This spring is very different from other springs in the mountain, it is cold to the bone, and the side of the spring water is close to the cliff. Perhaps because of the cold, there are no flowers and trees within a radius of ten zhang outside the spring, and people and animals are reluctant to approach. Strangely, the water does not freeze, and even in the middle of winter, it flows happily.
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