The river is wide and the clouds are low, and the herons and birds are singing in the east wind.

At this time of the year, countless egrets fly from the north of the Huai River to the south, and flocks of white birds fly through the canopy, adding a new color to the sky of this small city by the river.

"A clear sky and cranes line the clouds!"

Su Jie leaned back and lay comfortably on the fence of the boat, his two godly eyes squinting slightly at the egrets flying under the clear blue sky, completely using this small boat as the Taishi chair at home.

"You're talking nonsense about the verses that the gentleman taught. Ah Xiao replied with a smile, but he didn't relax the strength of the oars in his hand, "These are herons flying in the sky, where did the white cranes come from?"

"I don't care, anyway, it doesn't matter what heron bird or white crane he is, it's all a big white bird, it's all the same!"

"And ......," he said, sitting up excitedly and spreading his arms in joy, "don't you think it's appropriate?"

"What's the situation?" Ah Xiao asked as he wished.

"How magnificent!" Su Jie pointed to the distance where the water and the sky met, and looked at the sparkling water, where there were still many fishing boats and larger cargo ships on the water at this time.

He said loudly: "Ah Xiao, look at it, the Xihe River is the largest river that flows into the Huaihe River in our Huainan Road, it is a hundred zhang wide, and the water is even bigger after the rainy season.

"It's magnificent!"

Ah Xiao followed his finger to see that the water of the stream was flowing endlessly to the north under the illumination of the fiery red sun, and there were some cattle grazing leisurely on the other side of the river on the other side of the faintly visible river.

The rowing boy remembered his dream long ago, in which there was a god-like obsidian city with ancient runes inlaid on its walls, and beside it was a huge rushing water.

Ah Xiao didn't know how to describe his dream, if he really wanted to find some words to describe the huge water, that is, even the stars and the moon seemed to rise from the huge water, and the stream in front of him was compared to the fireflies and the bright moon, the waves and the sea.

But he asked Ah Xiao and his grandfather, and the two of them couldn't say why, Sui Han speculated that this might be the anomaly caused by the birth of the secret realm in Ah Xiao's body.

Ah Xiao was also relieved, since Yushan came back, he had never dreamed of these strange dreams again, and then he was relieved when he thought about it, how could such a huge city be real? Even if the legendary gods lived, it was just like that, right?

However, how could gods exist, he thought silently, Uncle Jiang had said before that there are no gods in the world, at most there are monks who have cultivated to the extreme.

"What's so magnificent about this, how big can the stream be?" Ah Xiao shook his head and said to Su Jie: "If you want to see the magnificence, Mr. Zhao once said that the first place is the sunrise in Nanhai County in Lingnan Road, and the second is the sunset in Yunmengze in Jingchu Road." ”

"How does Mr. Zhao know? He hasn't been there. Su Jie pursed his lips.

"Could it be that just because he is Fanyan's father, you trust your father-in-law so much?"

"Fart, you!" Ah Xiao punched him.

"What's the reason for that? Why do you like to listen to him so much? I can't listen to him, is it possible that what they said is right? Especially Chen Laohu, I sometimes think he is full of nonsense. ”

Ah Xiao opened his mouth and wanted to say something to refute, but he didn't know what to say, so he held back for a long time, and only one sentence came out: "That's what the book says, what the book says can't be wrong, right?"

The two fought for a while, but Ah Xiao couldn't compete with Su Jie, so he could only not fight with him.

The wind blowing on the water wants to sleep, although Hexi and Jianyi City are only separated by water, but they are not in the same geographical location, and they need to row a few miles downstream to have a dock for ships to dock. Su Jie didn't support it for long, and lay down again. After a while, Ah Xiao suddenly shouted: "It's coming!"

Su Jie was shocked, sat up tremblingly, and shook the boat a little.

Ah Xiao couldn't help laughing and patted him on the shoulder, "It's almost there, get up!"

Su Jie rose up, scooped a handful of river water in the water and washed his face, removing the tiredness on his face, and then said slowly: "It's really comfortable." ”

"You're comfortable. ”

Su Jie laughed at this time, patted his chest, "I'll row the way back, but I go back against the water, so you still make money!"

Ah Xiao ignored him, got to the dock, tied the rope, and walked straight to the orchard not far away.

Su Jie hurriedly followed.

"The melon orchards in Hexi are all from Xie Fatzi's family, that is, the master of your Uncle Jiang's family, all his fruits come from there, and the place where we go is his orchard. Su Jie said.

Hearing Su Jie's mention of Jiang Laosi, Ah Xiao's watery eyes dimmed slightly, saying that Uncle Jiang wanted to bring him to Hexi a few years ago, but in the end, because of the rising water in the rainy season, it didn't come to fruition, and if you calculate it carefully, has it been so long?

Although he said that he still had his grandfather by his side, Ah Xiao still had a sense of uneasiness in his heart, which did not disappear with the passage of time, and sometimes, it would even burst out in a strange way in a dream one night, and this uneasiness could also be called a sense of belonging that was nowhere to be found.

In the dream, he was only one person, the yard, the camphor tree, the old well, and even the bamboo tube where he drank water, but he was alone from beginning to end.

The people in the small courtyard at the end of Tuochuan Street are Ah Xiao's sense of belonging.

He instinctively felt himself getting farther and farther away from his grandfather.

After Jiang Laosi left, the old Taoist priest went out more and more frequently, there was nothing at first, but he came back in three or five days, and he didn't return home for even ten days and half a month, and then he went out recently for more than a month.

Sometimes Ah Xiao is afraid that he will be the only one left in the small courtyard, he is not afraid of living alone, he is afraid that his grandfather and Uncle Jiang will not want him.

He didn't have a home in the first place, it was the old Taoist priest and Jiang Laosi who picked him up, and everyone in Jianyi City knew about it.

Homeless people are always afraid that what they have been chasing is the shadow of the bubble.

So in the past few years, he has desperately wanted to reopen his life pass, he wants to be praised for his crazy cultivation, but the life pass seems to be cast by pig iron, and he doesn't move at all.

These days, the old Taoist priest rarely asks about Ah Xiao's cultivation, and sometimes when he comes back, he just leaves in a hurry, puts Ah Xiao to Su's house, and rushes out the next day. Ah Xiao sometimes wonders, is it because of himself, so grandpa gave up on himself?

"Ah Xiao, let's go!"

Su Jie poked Ah Xiao's back.

Ah Xiao came back to his senses.

The two of them had not gone far before they came to the side of the orchard, which was simply fenced off with hemp grass and some wooden sticks as tall as a man, and the gate was made of a large wooden plank, on which there were some scribbles on coal.

"You stinky bitch, what are you crazy about in front of me?"

Before Ah Xiao and Su Jie entered the orchard, they heard a burst of shouting and scolding.

Under the trees in the orchard, a few sturdy boys, who looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, were besieging a small circle, punching and kicking a certain "thing" in the circle, and a little fat man was commanding, holding an uneaten Sydney pear in his hand, triumphant.

"You stinky bitch, how dare you talk to Brother Li like this? Brother Li, don't make a move, this kind of dirty woman is not worthy of you to beat him with your own hands!" One of them scolded.

"Yes, yes, yes! This disgusting species really doesn't deserve to live in the world! No wonder my father said that dragons give birth to dragons, and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and those who are cheap like you are cheap seeds!" After scolding again, he spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the body of the "thing".

The "thing" that shrunk into a ball moved, and it actually stretched out, and it was a thin teenager, the young man's face was yellow and thin, and the clothes on his body that were not very good were kicked and torn, he slowly raised his head and glared at the little fat man on the side: "I'm not a mongrel, and my mother is not a slut." ”

The tone is very flat, but it is very decisive.

"Do you dare to talk back? In the school, you are like a mourning dog who eats dung, that mouth is really stinky, you can complain to Mr. everywhere, I'm still afraid of you?"

The little fat man was angry, rolled up his two sleeves, and smashed the uneaten Sydney pear into the face of the thin young man lying on the ground, Sydney collided with his cheek, and the juice overflowed, and then one hand grabbed the thin boy's collar, and actually lifted him up directly, and the other hand of the little fat man clenched into a fist, and asked sharply:

"If you don't give it to me, I'll beat you up again!"

"Don't give. ”

The thin boy responded firmly.

"You!"

The little fat man raised his fist and was about to hit the yellow-skinny young man in the face.