"This way, this way~! Swam over...... And one more ......"

Ye Zi stretched out his neck and looked at the stream intently, his pink and soft lips were closed one by one, and there were still a few village girls and children standing on the bank of the stream, secretly looking at the leaves from time to time, at this time Ye Zi's mind was completely on the fat fish, and he did not pay attention to those inquiring looks.

In addition to the eldest brother of the Fan family in the stream, there are several young strong men in the village, who are holding nets and carrying fish. The stream is not deep, only to the knees or so, you can see the fish swimming around in the water, it is the season when the fish are fat in autumn, the palm-sized fish swim and flee in the water, the harvest of each family is very good, there are bursts of cheerful laughter by the stream, and more than a dozen children also run around the stream from a distance, and the stream is suddenly more lively.

"Hey, this fish is really fresh enough, it's been out of water for so long, and it can still jump! Hey, little fish, don't worry, I'll stew you when I get home...... Hey! ”

Ye Zi leaned over and grabbed a fish that had just escaped from the bamboo tree and was desperately jumping on the ground with both hands, and put it back into the bamboo tree, and said with a smile on his face, Ye Zi, who had raised his body again, saw a cyan figure coming from a distance on the path into the village.

Ye Zi squinted at the beautiful phoenix eyes and took a closer look, this person looked about twenty-five years old, with a slightly thin figure and a blue and gray robe, the corners of the robe were very neat and clean, his hair was combed high and a hosta was inserted, his facial features were upright and handsome but his complexion was slightly darker, he looked ordinary at first glance, but his eyes were shining, and he looked quite resourceful.

Looking at the man in Tsing Yi who suddenly appeared, the children playing by the stream stopped playing one after another, blinking their eyes and looking curiously at this man who was dressed differently from the people in the village, and had a good bearing in a long robe. The girls, blushing, stood aside with their heads bowed and looked at them secretly.

"Third brother!"

Ye Zi was still in a daze, suddenly heard a shout, and hurriedly looked for the sound, only to see the eldest brother of the Fan family at this time with an excited face to throw away the net pocket in his hand, wading through the water and hurriedly coming to the shore, splashing half of his trouser legs.

"Third brother?"

Ye Zi was slightly stunned in his heart, and then suddenly realized that he thought in his heart, it turned out that this was the legendary third brother of the Fan family!

The people who were fishing in the stream stopped what they were doing, and looked at the third brother of the Fan family who fell from the sky, with envy and admiration on their faces. The man in Tsing Yi looked at the expressions of the people around him, and showed an elegant and warm smile on his face, and when he saw Ye Zi's exquisite appearance, his eyes full of smiles flashed slightly, and he quickly retracted.

I saw the man in Tsing Yi, who was called the third brother, smiled back with a slight smile: "Big brother! I am back! ”

"I haven't seen you for many years, third brother, you're okay!"

The eldest brother of the Fan family held the arm of the man in Tsing Yi tightly, and after carefully looking the man in Tsing Yi up and down, he asked with excitement on his face. The young man looked at the Fan family's eldest brother's face, which was already very dark and red due to sun exposure and hard work, just smiled and nodded, and gently patted the Fan family's eldest brother's arm and said:

"Big brother! I'm fine, I'm here to visit my mother, eldest brother and second brother, I've been out for a long time, and I'm also very worried about you! ”

The words of the man in Tsing Yi obviously no longer have the dialect of Xiaoguancun, and his voice is loud and pleasant.

Brother Fan didn't care about anything else, and excitedly took Fan Wenbai's arm all the way to the village, Ye Zi picked up the net pocket in the stream, bent down and walked slowly towards the village with a bamboo leaf.

As soon as Ye Zi left, he secretly thought: "I heard that the third brother of the Fan family has not come back for a long time, why did he suddenly come back today?" Odd! The incomprehensible leaves this matter behind him, looking down at the fresh fish that pops up from time to time in the bamboo tree, and his heart is happy!

"Wow...... My favorite fish! Well, I have a good mouth at noon today! ”

After Ye Zi and the two brothers of the Fan family walked away, the people in the village who were fishing in the stream began to discuss: "This is the immortal chief of the Fan family, a person with great ability!" ”

"Yes, yes! I heard that you can float on the water! ”

"What's more, floating on the water, flying in the sky, the ability can reach the sky!"

"That's amazing......"

The girls peeking next to them also had the courage to discuss at this time: "Hey, this person is the third immortal in the Fan family?" I don't know if I'm married? ”

"Phew! You're not a bad girl! If you don't marry, you won't be able to marry! ”

"You're talking nonsense! Who said I was going to marry him? ”

"Whew! If you don't want to marry, then what are you doing with a red face!? ”

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Back in the small courtyard, the courtyard was already lively, laughter and crying were mixed together, a good picture of the farewell of relatives and the return of the old son to his hometown.

Ye Zi stood quietly at the gate of the courtyard for a while, and when everyone calmed down, Mrs. Fan raised her eyes and saw Ye Ziqiao standing at the gate of the courtyard, and hurriedly called with a smile: "Ye'er, come here, this is your third brother Fan." ”

"Brother Fan is good! My surname is Ye, and my name is Yezi. Ye Zi slowly walked in front of everyone, looking at everyone's smiling faces, and felt like he was redundant.

"Aunt Fan, Brother Fan, you talk first, I'll go cook!"

"I'll go, I'll go!"

Sister-in-law Fan and Sister-in-law Fan followed along, both of whom walked towards the kitchen. Ye Zi thought about it, the kitchen was small, and the three of them couldn't turn around, so they said to Fan's sister-in-law and Fan's second sister-in-law: "Why don't I go kill the fish, it's fresh and delicious to kill it alive!" ”

But looking at the felt board at the door of the kitchen, the fresh fish that jumped a few times from time to time, Ye Ke was in trouble, and two new eyebrows on his delicate face wrinkled: How to start this?

Ye Zi loves to eat fish, he has never killed a fish, he used to buy ready-made, where do he know how to slaughter live fish!

Seeing that Ye Zi was worried, the eldest brother of the Fan family, who was standing in the courtyard, walked over, looking at Ye Zi's delicate face wrinkled into a bun at the moment, and couldn't help grinning the corners of his mouth and said, "Sister of the Ye family, do you want me to help!" ”

Ye Zi hurriedly nodded like a chicken pecking rice and stepped aside. I saw the eldest brother of the Fan family pick up the tail of the fish with his right hand and throw it on the slate, and the fish rolled his eyes and fainted directly, and the eldest brother of the Fan family slowly clasped the fish gills with his left hand, and scraped the fish scales with the back of the knife with his right hand, and said:

"It's easy to kill fish, first stun the fish, then scrape the scales, and then disembowel and dirty, it's simple!"

Looking at the actions of the eldest brother of the Fan family in one go, Ye Zi couldn't help but be a little nervous.

"I'll try this one!"

Seeing that the eldest brother of the Fan family quickly finished cleaning up one fish and was about to clean up another, Ye Zi hurriedly spoke.

"Okay! If you come, you can come! The eldest brother of the Fan family washed his hands, got out of the way and walked towards the courtyard.

Watching the eldest brother of the Fan family move briskly, but Ye Zi fell on the stone several times with the fish's tail, and because the strength was not mastered well, the fish jumped to the ground. Ye Zi hurriedly grabbed the fish, the fish body was slippery, Ye Zi carefully pinched the fish tightly with both hands and wanted to put it back on the stone slab, but he didn't expect the fish to slide out as soon as he twisted his body! Ye Zi's temper suddenly came up, and he directly slapped the back of the knife on the fish's head, and the fish straightened up and stopped moving! Ye Zi nodded with satisfaction, and put the fish back on the stone slab and scraped the scales.

After cleaning up three fish in a row, Ye Zi straightened his shoulders a little sore, and when he raised his head, he saw Fan Wenbai sitting on the edge of the stone table in the courtyard. Ye Zi squinted his eyes and looked at Fan Wenbai, who had an extraordinary bearing, lowered his head and continued to get busy.

"Immortal...... Cultivating immortals? Cultivating Immortals...... Repair ......"

At this time, Ye Zi's mind suddenly flashed, an incredible thought rose, and then kept churning in his mind, and he couldn't suppress it anymore, Ye Zi's face was red with excitement, and his hands trembled slightly because of excitement, and he took a few deep breaths before Ye Zi suppressed the restlessness in his heart.

And Fan Wenbai, who was sitting and drinking tea at the stone table in the courtyard, picked up the teacup and gently blew the non-existent tea foam, looked at the leaves lightly with his movements, retracted his gaze and looked at the tea surface intently, and was secretly surprised in his heart: I didn't expect that there was such a stunning woman in this Xiaoguan Village, and it was really a tyrannical thing to nest in this poor mountain and remote area!

Ye Zi didn't notice Fan Wenbai's glance, but kept thinking about his thoughts in his heart while killing the fish.

Mrs. Fan was shocked by the huge surprise of Fan Wenbai's sudden return home, and was so excited that she sat next to Fan Wenbai and wiped her tears, while looking straight at the familiar face that had not changed at all in her memory, and her face was full of joy in her eyes. The eldest brother and the second brother of the Fan family stood opposite Fan Wenbai at this time, looking at Fan Wenbai with joy and earnestness, and Fan Wenbai had long been accustomed to such a gaze, and his movements became more and more elegant and gentle, and the pottery teacup with a rough texture was invisibly a little more elegant in Fan Wenbai's hand. After taking a sip of coarse tea, Fan Wenbai frowned and slowly put down the teacup, and said to the two eldest brothers of the Fan family who were still standing aside:

"Big brother and second brother, sit down!"

"Hey......" The two middle-aged Fan family brothers were like two children at this time, their faces flushed with excitement, revealing a sense of restraint.

"Third brother...... The third brother is still so young! It's really good to cultivate immortals! The eldest brother of the Fan family grinned and said with a smile.

Fan Wenbai listened to the words of the eldest brother of the Fan family, but he smiled slightly and did not answer, but secretly mocked in his heart:

"Everyone in the world knows that cultivating immortals is good, snort! How do you know how cruel and difficult it is to survive in the immortal cultivation world? Thinking of this, Fan Wenbai sighed leisurely without showing a trace, took a sip of the coarse tea on the stone table, and frowned slightly.

The entrance is not only bitter and there is no trace of tea aroma, but it is slightly more than clear water, but it is already the best tea that the Fan family can take.

After half an hour of busyness, a sumptuous meal was placed in front of everyone. Everyone sat down in turn, Mrs. Fan sat on the top, Ye Zi sat on Mrs. Fan's right, the eldest brother of the Fan family, the second brother and Fan Wenbai sat separately, and the eldest brother of the Fan family and the sister-in-law of the second brother's family opened another table with their children!

I saw three vegetarian dishes on the stone table, a fish soup, a braised roe deer meat, a steamed crucian carp, and a large plate of all kinds of dried meat to eat during the festival, which was very hearty! The steamed fish and fish soup were made by Ye Zi himself, and looking at the dishes he made with his own hands, Ye Zi felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

It took a lot of thought to make this fish leaf, and the people of Xiaoguancun don't eat the green onion, which is too strong, and this green onion is still planted when the leaf went out to dig wild vegetables. When she first dug it back, Mrs. Fan still frowned and said with a skeptical expression: "Can this grass be eaten?" Even our poultry don't eat this grass, the smell is too bad! ”

Ye Zi only smiled mysteriously at Old Lady Fan: "I have a secret, I will definitely let you like it!" ”

This is only a few days of hard work, it is a lot thicker, the leaves are dug up a handful of roots and leaves, the green onion is shredded and steamed together in the belly of the fish, the green onion leaves are shredded and discharged on the fish surface, and the hot oil is rolled, the fragrance comes to the nose, and it also adds a touch of green to the whole dish, and it is particularly attractive.

Everyone was very curious about the fish steamed with wild onions, and they raised their chopsticks to taste it: "Hmm...... It's delicious, it's delicious! ”

Seeing that everyone liked their steamed fish, Ye Zi was in a good mood and ate it very happily.

"This fish is steamed and tastes very good, Miss Ye's craftsmanship is really good, thanks to your care for your mother during this time, Fan is very grateful, I salute you here!"

Fan Wenbai put down his chopsticks, and Junyi's face was full of smiles, and he picked up the wine glass and said to Yezi. Ye Zi hurriedly swallowed the fish meat in his mouth, and said urgently with his hands swinging again and again: "Wherever I am, Aunt Fan takes care of me!" Third Brother Fan, don't say that! ”

Ye Zi delicately showed a look of shame on his face, thought for a while and continued: "If I want to say thank you, I have to thank Brother Fan for saving me, Aunt Fan took me in, it is all my debt to everyone, this glass of wine should be my respect to everyone!" With that, Ye Zi raised the wine glass in front of him to everyone, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, the wine was home-brewed grain wine, the wine was rich and spicy, choking his throat, and Ye Zi was choked and coughed.

"Ahem......"

When Mrs. Fan saw that the leaves were choked, she hurriedly put down the chopsticks in her hand and patted the back of the leaves, and said with disgust on her wrinkled face:

"Alright...... All right! I'm happy today, don't talk about this, Ye'er, drink less, don't care about a few of them, let them drink it themselves! ”

Aunt Fan said distressedly to Ye Zi, snatched the wine glass in Ye Zi's hand with one hand and put it in front of her, and put a lot of vegetables in the bowl for Ye Zi, urging Ye Zi to eat vegetables.

"Mother, why are you so eccentric! Miss Ye is your daughter, we all picked it up!? The second brother of the Fan family shouted loudly, causing everyone to laugh for a while.

"You little bunny! There are so many dishes that you can't stop your mouth. Mrs. Fan said with disgust, and at the same time, she also took a big duck leg and gently threw it into Fan Er's bowl. Fan Eryi looked at the fat and attractive duck legs, grinned at the corners of his mouth and said, "It's still my mother who hurts me the most!" After speaking, he hurriedly lowered his head and gnawed the duck leg fiercely.

Mrs. Fan didn't care about eating herself, but kept putting vegetables into Fan Wenbai's bowl, at this time Fan Wenbai's bowl had been piled up like a high hill, and she couldn't put any extra dishes anymore, so Mrs. Fan stopped and looked at Fan Wenbai with a relieved smile, her wrinkled face was like a blooming chrysanthemum.

After about five minutes of eating, the eldest brother of the Fan family looked at Fan Wenbai's still young face, and asked tentatively: "The third brother hasn't come back for more than ten years!" I don't know ...... coming back this time."

When Fan Wenbai heard Brother Fan ask, he gently put down the chopsticks in his hand, raised his head and looked at Mrs. Fan, the eldest brother of the Fan family and the second brother of the Fan family before slowly replying: "This time I came back to see my mother, eldest brother and second brother, and I will leave in three days." As for the future...... I'm afraid I won't come back in the future. As soon as Fan Wenbai's words fell, the banquet suddenly quieted down, and the smiles on everyone's faces gradually froze, only the children at the table next to them still made noises, and the whole courtyard was silent and dull.

"Forehead ......"

Ye Zi didn't know what to say, look at this, look at that, and look at the fish soup on the table that hadn't moved much, Ye Zi moved tentatively and greeted:

"Come on...... Come, drink my secret fish soup! ”

The leaves of the fish soup put some ginger slices and green onions, which remove the fishy smell of the fish and make the soup more sweet and fragrant. Ye Zi served a bowl to a few of them, and everyone didn't speak, just drank the soup silently.

"Well, this soup is really good, I didn't expect Miss Ye's craftsmanship to be so good, hehe......"

Mrs. Fan gently took two mouthfuls of soup, this was still the first bite Mrs. Fan ate, she reluctantly pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled, and the rest of the people also echoed Mrs. Fan's words, not letting Mrs. Fan be too sad and sad because of Fan Wenbai's words. Fan Wenbai's meaningless eyes looked at Ye Zi fixedly, nodded at her gently, silently expressing his gratitude, Ye Zi grinned and waved his hand lightly at the other party, burying his head and continuing to eat.

"This Ye girl, it's very interesting, and she looks so beautiful...... Fan Wenbai thought secretly while eating the vegetables.