Yesterday it rained heavily, today the sky is clear, and the sun shines warmly on everyone's face, creating a thin golden halo. Su Ziqing and a group of people rode horses on the mountain path, they had come to the foot of Wuming Mountain not far away, there was no carriage here, so they could only use horses to walk into the mountain.

They came to a small river, which was flowing very fast, probably because of yesterday's rain. There is a wooden bridge on the bridge, and the surface of the bridge looks a little dilapidated due to disrepair, and I don't know if it can be safely walked through.

"My shoes...... My shoes ......."

Suddenly, the voice of an old man, dressed in gray clothes and gray hair, sat on a stone by the river and looked into the middle of the river, still babbling under the bridge.

Su Ziqing turned over and dismounted, walked down the riverbank, came to the old man's side, and respectfully bowed to him and asked, "Old man, can the little girl ask you about something?"

When she approached, she found that the old man sitting on the stone was wearing shoes on one foot and the shoes on the other foot were missing.

When the old man heard someone talking to him, he turned his head to look at Su Ziqing: "Little girl, what do you want to ask?"

Not only was the old man's hair white, but even his eyebrows and beard were snow-white, and his face was full of wrinkles. He looked at Su Ziqing without a smile on his face, but showed a sad expression.

Seeing him like this, Su Ziqing was embarrassed to ask, so she just turned to the words on her lips and asked the old man a question: "Old man, why are you here, I see that you are very sad, is there any difficulty?"

When the old man heard her question, he was stunned for a moment, and then sighed and said, "My shoes, when I crossed the bridge just now, my shoes accidentally fell into the river and were hung on the wood in the middle of the river. ”

Su Ziqing looked at it as she said, and sure enough, she saw a shoe of the same color as the old man's foot hanging on the wooden stake in the middle of the river. She beckoned to Yunshuang and pointed to the shoes in the river: "Yunshuang bothered you to go and bring up the old man's shoes." ”

Yunshuang got the order, jumped up from the shore, tapped her toes on the water, and quickly flew towards the center of the river with the help of the water, she wore a moonlight dress today, and when she floated on the river, she looked like a fairy, which made Su Ziqing look at it, and couldn't help but envy in her heart.

This was not difficult for Yun Shuang, who was strong in martial arts, and soon the shoes were taken back. Su Ziqing took the shoes, handed them to the old man, and asked a question by the way.

"Old man, you know ......"

Before Su Ziqing finished speaking, the old man threw the shoes that were handed over to him back to the middle of the river, still in the same place, and even the posture of the shoes was exactly the same as just now.

"Old man, why, didn't you want to find your shoes, why did you throw them back again?" Su Ziqing was very puzzled when she saw the other party's behavior.

Hearing this, the old man looked at Su Ziqing with a serious face: "I'm asking you to pick it up, not letting your girl go, and you are not allowed to use light skills, but to go down the water to help me get shoes!"

Hearing the old man's words, Su Ziqing looked confused, who picked it up or not, isn't it right...... The point is wrong, isn't it good to pick up the shoes, why do you have to throw them out and let me pick them up again. She was now a head and two big, her eyes were wide open, and her eyes were staring at the little old man in front of her without blinking, as if she had lost her soul.

Seeing that Su Ziqing didn't move, the old man's face suddenly drooped, he turned around, waved his hand a little angrily, and said with a sigh: "Young people now, I refuse to help the old man pick up his shoes, he is useless when he is old, he deserves to be disliked, if he doesn't help me pick up the shoes, I will sit here and not go home......"

Hearing his words, everyone's faces were embarrassed, this old man is really laid. An Yicheng, who was standing by the bridge, was the first to hold back, and said, "Qing'er, don't worry about him, hurry up, let's go into the mountain!"

While shaking the fan, he glared at the old man fiercely with those hooking peach blossom eyes, and muttered in a low voice: "It's just a stinky old man, why do you care about him so much." ”

Su Ziqing didn't listen to An Yicheng's words, she waved her hand at everyone on the shore, signaling everyone to be calm and not to be impatient. She took off her teal coat, then rolled up her sleeves and prepared to wade into the river to pick up her shoes.

Seeing her like this, everyone on the shore opened their mouths to stop her, and Yunshuang, who was standing next to her, directly stretched out her hand and grabbed her: "Miss, don't go, you are weak, you see that the river is so urgent, it will definitely be washed away, in case something happens to you, what should we do?"

"Sister, I think the most important thing for us now is to go up to Wuming Mountain first......" Fu Mo persuaded Su Ziqing very tactfully, Lu Wanrou beside him did not speak, but judging from her expression, she also supported Fu Mo. The fiercest opposition was An Yicheng, who jumped off the bridge and strode over, looking like he wanted to pull Su Ziqing ashore.

Only Bai Liming and Lu Yifei did not speak on the shore, their expressions on their faces were faint, they were not nervous or persuasive, they seemed to be indifferent at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that they also have a doting look in their eyes, looking at Su Ziqing below.

Su Ziqing shook off An Yicheng's hand and stepped directly into the water, the river water in winter was very cold, and as soon as she stepped in, she felt that her feet had been numb and unconscious. Step by step, she walked carefully, first to her thighs, then to her waist, then to her chest, and finally only a neck.

"Ahh

It was cold, Su Ziqing sneezed loudly, and the result can be imagined, her center of gravity was unstable and fell into the river. It was too late for everyone to rush to save her, the river was not only flowing rapidly, but also very turbid, and there was no trace of Su Ziqing in the river in an instant.

Everyone searched around but didn't find Su Ziqing, and when they returned to their original place, the old man was gone. An Yicheng was so angry that he split out with a bone fan, splitting the stone that the old man was sitting on just now in half, and also cut a crack more than two meters long on the ground. The river flowed into the cracks, filling the hideous cracks in an instant.

"What now?"

Yunshuang looked at Baili Ming anxiously, it turned out that not only Su Ziqing, but even the people around her were used to taking this man as the backbone.

Baili Ming, who was dressed in a tea-blue robe, looked at the towering Wuming Mountain in front of him, and his eyes flickered slightly: "Wait for a day, if I don't see her tomorrow, I will step on Wuming Mountain." "He's talking about me, not us.

Lu Yifei also looked at the vigorous trees, and Wuming Mountain, which was full of green trees, was slightly distracted. It's already winter, and the trees on the mountain don't have yellow leaves yet, and there is a vibrant scene everywhere, as if it's summer.

Some people listened to Baili Ming's words, and some people didn't listen, An Yicheng and Fu Mo didn't listen, the two divided into two groups and went downstream to find Su Ziqing together.