The Wupan River is gushing endlessly.

It enters Ningzhou in the west and Weishui in the east.

Wei Lai and Liu Jiejie stood on the bank of the Wupan River together, and the children not far away were playing, still singing the nursery rhymes that Wei Lai had sung when he was a child.

"The Wupan River basin is vast and is the largest river in the entire Dayan. ”

"Before Yan usurped the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty emphasized humanity and light the way of God, except for the Yin God who died in the war for the country, rarely canonized other gods, and the gods in many places were worshiped by the people or spontaneously cultivated. ”

"At that time, although the Wupan River was large, the gods were different, and there was no god who could dominate the entire Wupan waters. ”

Liu Jiejie looked at the rolling river, his eyes were deep, and he muttered in his mouth.

When Wei Lai heard this, he glanced sideways at the old man: "So you are the Jiang God of the one worshiped by the people of Wupan City back then?"

The old man did not respond to Wei Lai's question, his gaze became deeper and deeper, and his expression was a little trance-like, as if he had traveled back to a hundred years, and some scenes were vivid, flashing in front of his eyes like a streamer.

Then.

Wupan City is not called Wupan City, but Wupan Town.

The Great Zhou War was chaotic, and the warlords in various places were divided, and the war was incessant both inside and outside. A large number of corpses that had died in vain or in battle had no time to be buried, and they were all thrown into the Wupan River, and the corpses flowed down the river to this place. Further east, the Wupan River in Dayan, the Daquan River in Qi State, and the Baitou River in Guirong all have to merge into Weishui.

It is said that there are nine countries in the north, but this is not the case.

There are eleven countries in the north, and in addition to nine countries such as Kaiyan, Qi, Guirong, and Chu, there are two countries in the north.

One of them is the Weishui Divine Kingdom, which is the main stream across the northern border and densely tributaries. The Lord of Weishui is also the Lord of the Scales of the North, the God of Weishui, and the God of the Waters of the North.

The Dragon King of Weishui was in charge, and the corpses of those dead souls in the Wupan River did not dare to flow into Weishui at all, so they all piled up at the tail of the Wupan River. The corpses of the dead are piled up, and this beautiful place is also held hostage by the ghosts, and there are often water ghosts who cause trouble.

At that time, I was still a young and strong buffalo, and the heifers in Wupan Town liked me to row from the east of the town to the west of the town.

But I don't like them, I think their love is not pure enough, more of an impulse to accumulate desires.

Compared to those things, I like to lie on the grass and watch the people play, farm, or just talk. But such days did not last long, the water ghosts in the Wupan River became more and more noisy, the previous river gods were torn off by the evil ghosts in the water, without the suppression of the river gods, the activities of the water ghosts became more and more rampant, once it was almost at night, the doors of the houses were closed.

Later, a monk came and suppressed the water ghosts.

On the day he left, the people went to see him off, and I followed to join in the fun, but the monk saw me at a glance in the crowd, and he accepted the idea of leaving. He came up to me and said that I had great wisdom and wanted to give me a great transformation.

The monk lived by the river, and I followed the monk, and he told me some scriptures every day, and I listened to them a lot, but I was still willing to follow him. Because he doesn't see me as a cow, but as a friend, a friend to communicate with.

Man should live longer than an ox.

But the monk was a very strange man, he aged very quickly, faster than me.

In less than two years, the monk in his early twenties when I first met him has grown into what I am now. I'm a cow, I can't do anything, I can only be by his side every day. The water ghosts of the Wupan River are still making trouble, although it is only a small fight, but I still have to carry the monk to the riverside every day to suppress the water ghosts.

Gradually, the monk's body became weaker and weaker, and one day when I was carrying him back, he suddenly fell off my back, and I was anxious to help him up, but neither the hooves nor the mouth of the cow could be as effective as a pair of hands. I was in a hurry and wanted to go to the town to find someone to help, but the monk stopped me.

He said it was time for me to do that creation.

I remember that with just a single click, I was connected to the qi of the river in front of me, and I immediately turned into a human form.

......

When Wei Lai heard this, his face changed slightly.

Cultivating into the Shinto is nothing more than a few ways, either canonized by the imperial court, or worshiped by the people, or like the Weishui Dragon King, who uses the cultivation of the heavens to connect the luck of a place with his body.

But there are two other ways to do this.

One is called Daigo empowerment, and the other is said to be immortal.

The former is a means only available to the great sages of Buddhism, and the latter is the supernatural power of the saints of Taoism.

Obviously, the monk that Liu Zhijie met was the former.

Wei Lai guessed Liu Jiejie's identity, but he didn't guess that he still had such a past, and he couldn't help asking, "What about later?"

Liu Jiejie continued with a calm face: "Later, ah, ......"

Later, I became the river god of this water, and the monk asked me to burn his body before he died. I did as I said, and took out a stone after the fire was extinguished, and the monk said that it was his relic, and asked me to take it with me, first, to save my life, and secondly, if I meet someone destined in the future, I can give this relic to the other party, which can be regarded as keeping a little inheritance for him.

But how do I know what it means to be destined?

But after all, the hands of people are short, and the mouth of eating people is soft, so I will always carry the relics close to me, and I will also do a good job of the river god of the Wupan River. No water ghosts and water demons can make any big waves under my hands, and Wupan Town has become a rare pure land within a radius of 100 miles for a while. Many people came here, and more and more people gathered in Wupan Town, and it gradually became Wupan City.

The days passed like this, Yan usurped Zhou, and I also became a river god for decades in a blink of an eye, I watched a generation of Wupancheng people, from children to parents, from parents to bad old men and bad old women, and then turned into loess.

When you see too many of these things, you will start to think, like me, what are people living for?

It doesn't seem to make sense to walk through this colorful world and leave in a hurry.

This question puzzled me until one day, a girl fell into the Wupan River.

Speaking of this, Liu Yujie paused, his face showed a look of shame that was very inconsistent with his age, faintly red, and his cloudy eyes also lit up.

That light, Wei Lai thought it was probably what Sun Daren said, and when he looked at Lu Yan's childhood, he also had things in his eyes.

Even if it is ten years and a hundred years, even if there is frost and snow on my head, even if you are buried deep in the loess, when you think of that person, many things are still vivid and fresh.

......

The latter thing is somewhat cliché, it is nothing more than a Jiang Shen falling in love with a girl, and the girl married Jiang Shen despite everyone's opposition.

This was supposed to be the end of the story, but something that shouldn't have happened happened.

I don't know which tendon was wrong for the emperor at that time, and suddenly sent someone to start clearing the gods in the Wupan River, although I am the god of the river, but I was not canonized by the previous dynasty, it stands to reason that as long as I haven't done anything that hurts the heavens and reason, even if I change the dynasty, I can't control my head. But the court of the Great Yan Dynasty does not talk about these rules, whether you are the previous dynasty and the new dynasty, whether you are the yin god and yang god, as long as you are not a god canonized by the imperial court, they are all indiscriminate, and they are all wiped out.

My temple was demolished, and the court posted a ban on the people from worshipping privately. Anyway, I am the yang god, not the yin god who lives only on incense, so I won't lose my life if I cut off the incense. But I also had to leave Wupan City temporarily, wanting to escape into the Wupan River to avoid the limelight.

Before leaving, I explained everything to my old woman and confessed my identity. Our child was 10 years old at the time, and I told her that if I didn't come back, she could find someone to remarry.

But my old woman is very stubborn, she doesn't listen to me at all, she just says that even if she dies, she will wait until I come back. At that time, the situation was urgent, and I still could not explain it to her, so I could only put the relic in her hands.

After returning to the Wupan River, all the imperial troops who were responsible for clearing me suddenly retreated, and I thought that they had retreated in the face of difficulties, so the matter was stopped, and after observing the river for a few days, after making sure that they were not pretending to retreat, I wanted to return to my wife's side. But it was then that I knew I had fallen into a trap.

When I returned to the Wupan River, my soul was locked by a force, but I didn't realize it at first, and when I wanted to leave, I realized that I had been trapped in the Wupan River. That power is constantly drawing my divine power as the god of the Wupan River, and treating me as a captive cow and sheep......

Liu Zhi's tone of conclusion when he said this was a lot calmer, and it seemed that compared with the previous ones, the encounter in that section was more sparse and ordinary like eating and sleeping.

I stayed at the bottom of the Wupan River for many years, I don't know how my wife and my son are doing, at first I thought about resisting, but then I lost my strength, and I have been in a half-conscious state.

This went on for five years, and at the rate at which that power devoured me, it would probably take me another two or three years before I would die out completely.

But one day, while I was sleeping at the bottom of the river, I suddenly heard my wife's voice, and I opened my eyes in a trance and saw a golden thing suspended on the surface of the river. I subconsciously stretched out my hand, and the thing fell into my hand, which was a relic, a relic left to me by a monk.

To be honest, I was a little uneasy the moment I saw it.

But I held it anyway.

Then images poured into my mind from the relics.

My old woman has been carrying it with her, and she hasn't left her for five years.

She likes to sit in front of our bun shop in the evening for an hour.

She would send life-saving money to a relative who was hungry and cold, even if that relative had not been good to her before, even if she was not rich.

She would toss and turn in the night, swearing my name, crying and laughing.

She never showed such an abnormality in front of her children, and she always told her children that I would definitely come back when I said I would come back. But when he is free, he will come to the bank of the Wupan River and look at the river in a daze.

In the end, she was still tired of herself, she was lying on the hospital bed, but she told her son vigorously to spread this steamed bun, because I like to eat the steamed buns she made, and because I once said that even if one day I am blind and too old to see the road, as long as I smell the fragrance of our steamed bun shop, I can crawl home.

She wanted me to find my way home.

......

Speaking of this, Liu Jiejie stopped again and turned his head to look at Wei Lai.

At this time, he was squatting on the stone pole by the river, and he had dogtail grass in his mouth that he had found out of nowhere. The river was quiet and sparkling, and these imprints were reflected on the side of his face, and he said with a smile: "Remember when I told you that story?"

Wei Lai was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and he nodded.

"Actually, I lied to you. ”

Liu Jiejie said unapologetically: "The relics came back to me by herself after my wife's death, and I didn't see her for the last time, so naturally I didn't have the opportunity to listen to any stories she told me." ”

So I made up a story for myself. ”