In the summer dusk, the sun has gradually faded, and only a slanting afterglow remains on the river, reflecting the sparkling surface of the river, showing a heart-warming reddish.

This is a fishing village on the edge of the Han River, the fishing village of dozens of families is not big or small, when it is dinner time, the children playing by the river look at the curling smoke rising from their chimneys, smell the faint fragrance of rice at the end of their noses, swallow their saliva a few times, but in the end they no longer have the intention to play in the water, each beckoning home.

The woman who was still standing by the river, seeing the sound of the commotion just now, disappeared without a trace because of the smell of food, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

The woman looked with great interest at the bamboo sticking in the river, with a large fishing net tied to it, in which she could already see the fish jumping around, but she knew that it would not be long before someone would come to collect the net. It is the season of abundant fish, and Uncle Li will not get less from collecting the net today.

"Sister Xian, my mother called you home for dinner!" A crisp girl's voice came from behind her.

The woman smiled and turned around, the most striking thing on her slightly pale face was the clear eyes, wearing the usual coarse cloth clothes, but she couldn't hide her quiet and elegant temperament, she was Zhao Xian who fell off the cliff in the Paradise that day.

Zhao Xian nodded and said, "Let's go!" ”

The girl was about ten years old, and when she heard this, she hurriedly took two steps closer to Zhao Xian and said, "Sister Xian, you hold my shoulder." ”

Zhao Xian looked at the girl's thin shoulders, shook her head with a smile and said, "Don't bother you, I'll walk slowly by myself!" ”

The girl's delicate face flashed with disappointment, looked at Zhao Xian's legs, and said in a low voice, "My mother has taken care of it." ”

Seeing the girl's expression, Zhao Xian couldn't bear to be disappointed, so she stretched out her arm and symbolically gently put it on the girl's shoulder, and the two slowly walked towards the house not far away.

"San'er, has your father come back from town?"

"Not yet! My mother said that I would be able to come back in the evening! ”

"And who's going to harvest the fish today?"

"Mother said, if Daddy can't come back, please ask Brother Shui next door to help you collect it!"

The two walked and chatted, and soon came to a small courtyard with a low bamboo fence, the dishes and chopsticks had already been placed on the table in the courtyard, and the meal could be opened when everyone was ready, and the two people sat on the bamboo bench in the courtyard.

Before the little girl San'er pushed open the courtyard door, she saw the two people with sharp eyes, and her little face immediately smiled, cheered, and wanted to push the door and run in, but suddenly thought that she was still doing Sister Xian's crutches, and her face turned red, stopped, and called through the door: "Daddy!" You're back!

Then he shouted joyfully to the other: "Cousin! ”

The two turned their heads when they heard the sound, and the middle-aged man who was called his father was about forty years old, and his jujube-colored face was slightly old because he had been blown by the river breeze all year round; The other person is a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, with a white and round face, and when he laughs, he reveals the pear vortex at the corner of his mouth, which is extremely cute.

San'er's father saw that Zhao Xian was also following behind his daughter, and hurriedly beckoned Zhao Xian to come in, and the boy first called his cousin with a smile, and then saw Zhao Xian, so he put on a puzzled expression and asked, "Uncle, ......who is this sister?" ”

San'er's father replied: "Fourth son, this little lady was rescued by me by the river a few days ago, and she was injured in the leg and is now staying at home temporarily. ”

San'er hurriedly echoed: "That's what Daddy said." Cousin, why don't you call Sister Xian with me, Sister Xian knows a lot of things! ”

When the cousin heard what his uncle called him, his shoulders immediately drooped, and he said sullenly: "Uncle, our own family, why do we call it like that?" Then he gave Zhao Xian a salute and called: "Sister Xian is good!" Yun Cheng is polite! ”

The middle-aged man said with a solemn face: "Etiquette cannot be abolished!" Don't be like this, the fourth son! ”

Zhao Xian already felt that the way the nephew and uncle got along was quite weird, obviously they were uncles, but they were so respectful to their nephews, and then heard the boy call himself Yuncheng, his heart was even more moved, and he almost blurted out his surname, but he thought that if he met for the first time, he was afraid that it would arouse the vigilance of others, so he hurriedly suppressed his mood and returned a salute to Yuncheng.

"Uncle Li went to town today, but he sold the fish?" Zhao Xian asked with concern.

The middle-aged man, Uncle Li, nodded and smiled: "But coincidentally, someone in the town married today, and when they saw that my fish was fresh, they took all the fish." ”

"Daddy paid the money back?" San'er interjected and asked.

"Don't worry about it, kids!" Uncle Li touched San'er's head and said.

Zhao Xian asked quite strangely: "The tax on fish in the Great Song Dynasty is relatively light, and if the fish that Uncle Li brings on weekdays cannot be sold, it can be made into fish (the same as fried, a kind of pickled fish), and it can be sold at a good price when the weather is cold." Why do you owe money? ”

"Sister Xian doesn't know, although my big Song fish tax is light, but now the fishing season with bamboo as the beam is not much, once this season is over, my uncle will rock the boat to go to the river to fish, the fishing boat is windy and rainy, the loss is great, just repair is a lot of expenses. Besides, this bream needs to be salted with a thin layer of salt on the fish, and you know that this salt is not cheap now! Yuncheng shook his head and said.

"I see!" Zhao Xian did not expect that the fishermen's life would be so difficult, and the hard work of one year would only be enough to make ends meet. She looked at Yuncheng again and asked, "Since you call Uncle Li your uncle, judging by your clothes, the family must be quite rich, why is your uncle in debt, but my nephew is standing by?" ”

Yuncheng looked at his uncle, sighed, and stopped talking.

At this time, Aunt Li happened to come out with the food, and Uncle Li hurriedly waved his hand and smiled: "Don't say it, seeing that it's not early, let's have dinner first!" ”

Zhao Xian saw that the two of them didn't want to say more, so she also stopped.

After dinner, Zhao Xian put out the candle early and went to bed to rest because there were more people in Uncle Li's family and it was inconvenient to go to the courtyard to enjoy the coolness.

At this time, the moonlight in the sky was shining brightly, shining into the room through the window, and the silver light sprinkled on the bedside, and the simple room suddenly seemed extremely quiet.

Zhao Xian touched her right leg, which had not yet recovered and was in a faint pain, and remembered the situation of falling off the cliff that day.

That day, she was taken hostage by Mei Niang to the edge of the cliff, and at that time she remembered that the escape place vaguely marked on the map drawn by Qingqing was under the cliff in front of the waterfall.

In order to get rid of the fate of becoming Mei Niang's life talisman, she gritted her teeth and took a risk, not to commit suicide. It's just that when he fell off the cliff, he suddenly saw Ah Yan also jumping off the cliff and following him.

Because she couldn't speak, she shook her hand in a hurry, and the clinker Ayan Savior was so anxious that he flew down and grabbed her hand and protected her. After falling into the cliff together, they rushed into the water with the waterfall, and fainted, and her leg was sprained when she fell that day.

She was washed out of the waterfall and fell into the river, but fortunately she was washed by the river to this fishing village and was rescued by Uncle Li, but Ah Yan didn't know where she was washed to, but now her life and death are uncertain.

Now that her injuries have not healed, she can't go far alone, so she can only find a way to return to Xiangyang City after her body recovers. Thinking of this, she sighed secretly, knowing that she couldn't be in a hurry for a while.

At this time, when it was quiet inside and outside the house, Zhao Xian turned over and was about to close her eyes, but faintly heard someone in the courtyard talking softly.