"That year was September 7, 238 in the Qin calendar, and the 60th birthday of King Lu of Qin, which was celebrated by the whole country. The old man was traveling in the Qin Kingdom at the time, so he was fortunate to participate in that grand event.

All the way from Dongxiangmen, the streets are full of delicacies, and there is grease everywhere. You throw a chicken leg on the ground, and the wild dogs don't even smell it.

Why?

The food on the street is free for seven consecutive days, and the gold shark fin and silver phoenix dew you are talking about are all used by people to rinse their mouths.

Like the paws of a flying bear, and the carved legs of the ground, they are all piled up on the side of the road like a mountain.

The buildings on both sides of the road are full of people inside and out, if you want to eat soup dumplings from East Street, then I'm afraid you have to go to West Street to find a queue, you say there are too many people. If one person spat at that time, the sinkhole in the northern region is estimated to become another big lake in the world.

Although there are many people, the order is surprisingly good. At that time, I deliberately watched it, even if it was a well-known gangster in the city, it was very peaceful in those days.

Why?

Every ten steps there is a guard staring, which of you dares to make trouble? If you take another 10,000 steps back, who is Qin Wanglu? It was the god in the hearts of all Qin people at that time. Anyone who has Qin blood flowing in it, it is too late to respect him, how can he make trouble on his birthday.

So at that time, no matter how many people were on the street, no matter how crowded they were, no one stepped on the red carpet in the middle of the road. ”

An old man with gray hair and a goatee was spitting and talking, surrounded by a large group of children, mostly eleven or twelve years old, who listened with relish, and their eyes were shining and full of yearning.

At this time, a man carrying a flat pole walked in the distance, with dark skin, two buckets full of water shaking but not spilling, glanced at it, and sneered: "Old Li is lame, you are blowing again!"

"The people of the Qin Kingdom are all dead, do you blow it to the ghosts?"

"Li Wangba!" The old man with the goatee, who was called Li Lao's lameness, blushed when he heard this, pointed at the man and scolded.

"I don't care what others say about Qin, but you were saved by the Qin people back then, you ungrateful thing!"

"Say it again!" the man's face darkened, and his eyes seemed to be on fire.

"What's the matter? You white-eyed wolf!" Li Lao seemed to be unaware, and continued to point at the man and scold.

"Smack!"

Two buckets fell, wetting a large area.

The children scattered and muttered to each other as they left.

"The old lame uncle is going to be beaten by the eighth uncle again. ”

"yes, I guess I won't hear him tell a story these days. ”

......

Li Xiaokuan put his hands on pillows, walked silently, limped around the village, and turned to the edge of a small river.

He has been living in this village for seven years, fishing every day, fishing for parallel goods, plain, although not as dazed as when he first came, but when he thinks of all kinds of things on the earth, he is always a little lost in his heart.

Seven years, he has been living with this strange body for seven years.

"Li Yu!"

In his distraction, a girl in plain clothes called out to him.

"Oh, Ke'an, what's wrong?"

"You still say, you can't find it everywhere, so you go and chop the firewood. Grandpa Li is coming back soon. ”

The girl crossed her waist, and her white and tender little face was puffed out.

Her name is Shi Ke'an, and she has been dependent on him all these years, and Grandpa Li in her mouth is a fisherman living by the river in the village, and he has taken care of them all these years.

"Got it. ”

Li Xiaokuan nodded and ran towards the thatched hut not far away.

Strange to say, this body seems to have infinite strength, it can carry three hundred pounds of things with one hand, and it doesn't feel tired no matter how much work it takes. For this reason, Li Xiaokuan also deliberately tried it, ran along the river bank with all his strength, and ran continuously for a quarter of an hour before he felt tired.

With this physique, everyone asks him to do some coolie work in the village, and he will be paid when he finishes his work. In addition, he does his best for others, and he doesn't open his mouth, so he is also quite popular in the village.

A pile of firewood was chopped in a short time. Li Xiaokuan held the firewood and took a cauldron to boil water for the girl.

The firewood burned silently, and the two of them sat next to them and waited quietly, as usual, the firelight reflected the faces of the two, warm.

"Ke'an, I ask you. ”

Li Xiaokuan suddenly turned his head and said to Shi Ke'an.

"Well, you say. ”

Shi Ke quietly looked at the flickering firelight and nodded slightly.

"I want to ask, if someone asks you for something, but says that you have the final say on whether you can do that thing or not, will you do it?"

The girl tilted her head and thought about it seriously.

"Hmm...... It depends on who the other person is. If he is a very important person to me, then if he asks me, I will try my best to complete it, because if he does this, he will be happy, he will be happy, I will be happy. ”

Li Xiaokuan nodded thoughtfully as he listened, and then asked, "Then what if, that person is no longer in this world, is it still worth your doing?"

The girl was stunned for a moment, and then showed a smile that Li Xiaokuan couldn't understand now.

"Why isn't it worth it? If he's important to me, then if he's not in this world, I'm going to do that for him. Because if that's the case, I'm his only hope. ”

"But even if you do it, he won't see it?"

"But I can be happy for him. ”

Li Xiaokuan wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it for a while.

At this time, a small boat in the distance was slowly swinging over, and on the boat stood an old man wearing a hat, holding a long pole and singing.

"Grandpa Li is back. ”

The two immediately got up to greet him, Li Xiaokuan took the fishing net from Lao Suo's hand, handed it to Shi Ke'an, and asked Shi Ke'an to cook first. After Shi Ke'an left, Li Xiaokuan glanced at Xiaozhou and asked in a low voice, "There are parallel goods?"

"Hmm. Lao Su nodded lightly: "Live, help the handle." ”

The river is called the Thousand Ways River, and many of its tributaries converge here, so there are many strange things that float down. Lao Suo Li Guiyuan is a fisherman in this area, who is responsible for cleaning up the debris in the river. Occasionally, you can exchange something of value for money.

Locally, "parallel goods" represent corpses floating in the river. If a fisherman catches parallel goods, he can take them to the yamen for reporting, and if a family member comes to claim it, then he can get a reward.

Seven years ago, Li Xiaokuan was fished up from the river by Li Guiyuan as a "parallel goods".

Li Xiaokuan jumped on the boat and saw clearly a man dressed in black lying on the boat, his eyes were closed, his face was pale, and his body was powerful. However, the clothes were torn in many places, and many wounds could be seen blistered white in the places that were not covered, and some of them were even oozing blood.

Ordinary people dare not save such living people whose origin is unknown, and even put them in ropes and wait until they are confirmed to be dead and then scoop them up as a "parallel import".

But Li Guiyuan is an exception, according to his own words: If you don't save yourself when you see death, what is the difference between killing people?

Li Xiaokuan was deeply affected, so every time he traveled for Li Guiyuan over the years, he saved everything he could save when he met a living person, although some of them were deliberately looking for death, as if they had lost their souls, and continued to seek death after leaving, it was not something that Li Xiaokuan cared about.

Li Xiaokuan firmly believes that when he encounters these people, he must save them and give them another chance to choose.

Because the person he rescued for the first time was named Shi Ke'an.