As far as the sea can see, a small wooden-masted cargo ship walks silently on the calm sea level.

"It would be nice if it was windy, and we wouldn't have to paddle in the cabin. A boatman complained.

"Haha, you miss the current wind and sunshine in the windy weather, and yearn for the wind and waves when the wind and waves are calm. Another boatman teased.

"You two, paddle well, this batch of buyers is waiting for miles. The owner of the ship shouted.

Gu was lying on the deck, heard the conversation in the cabin, and sighed: "It seems that everything is hard, thinking that they are adrift in the sea every day, if it were me, I should have died of boredom." Gu muttered to himself, closed his eyes and continued to doze off.

At this time, the sound of the flute lingered around the sea, the sound was slow and soft, and the aftermath was lingering, like a continuous thin line, because this little unusual sound made the boring little boat seem to have a little opportunity to be happy, and some boatmen even hummed a tune to this song.

However, the effect of this flute is far from this, a sharp sound of the flute, suddenly a gust of wind blows, this wind happens to be a tailwind, and the wind is quite even, by no means a passing side.

"I have heard the timely rain in the mouth of the storyteller, and now there is a timely wind in us. Haha......" The boatman teased, lowered the oars, and walked out of the cabin with joy, and raised the canvas, only to see that the canvas was full of wind blows. The people looked at the swollen canvas and said almost in unison: "Good wind! Good wind!"

Because Gu was lying on the deck, he could see very clearly that this wind was not an ordinary wind, and its element was actually a spirit named "Yan Liu". "Yan Liu" is a kind of spirit master is very familiar with the spirit, especially when walking on the waterway, the spirit master will use special tools to summon "Yan Liu", in order to infer the changes in the next few days of the ocean, the operation of the air current, the size of the wind, although they are small, but the wind gathered together is huge, this is due to their individual shape is similar to the real life of the seabird, there are also two pairs of "Qi" like wings, Qi can fan back and forth to produce tiny cyclones, in the gloomy weather, can condense the moisture into water droplets, if the "Yan Liu" The amount is large enough to produce high winds or heavy rain.

Although "Yan Liu" and Gu have long been very familiar, these Yan Liu, listening to the sound of a real mortal blowing a hole flute, this is indeed an unheard of thing.

Gu sat up and looked for a sound, standing in front of him was a skinny, dark-skinned teenager, his lips were attached to a bamboo hole, the bamboo flute was slightly curved, and each hole didn't seem to be as big as it was decent, it was as round, probably handmade. The young man's fingers fell together flexibly, and the sound of the hole flute also made different tones with the movement of his fingers, and the "swallow stream" on the sail kept the full sail in an orderly manner.

The boy's flute stopped, and those "swallow streams" were still happily blowing all over the canvas.

Not only can you use the to control the swallow flow, but you can also keep them in their original state after you stop the. ”

"Ah...... Can you see them too?" the young man's gaze turned to Gu.

"You can see it. ”

"I thought I was the only one who could see it. The teenager added.

"Before, I also thought that only spirit masters could see spirits, but I didn't expect ordinary mortals to have exceptions. Gu smiled.

"Do you call them spirits?"

"They're just a kind of spirit, to be exact, they're called 'swallow streams.' ”

"I usually call them 'sea swallows', swallows that fly freely in the sea, they are the freeest, you think, even the sea is not afraid, what else do they care?"

"That sounds like a good name. Gu stood up and nodded in agreement.

"When will you be able to harness them?" Gu asked as he walked over to the boy.

"Because I am weak, so whenever the sea is windless, and the boatmen need to pull the oars, I will be left by the captain, so when I have nothing to do on the deck, I will take out this bamboo flute I have made, and blow it, and every time it blows, it will attract a group of creatures that I have never seen before, they are like small birds, and they are not birds, although I don't know their names, but I like them very much, and it is because of them that sailing in the boring sea is interesting, and as I come into contact with them more and more, I slowly learn to control them, know how to let them rise high wind, how to blow low wind, how to be impartial in the middle。 Of course, I also know when they will get tired, and at that point, I will blow out specific instructions for them to rest. The boy said with some pride.

"Oh, that's wonderful!" Gu couldn't help but admire.

"What tone can command them to fly high and blow high winds?" Gu asked.

"You should blow a sharper tone. After the young man finished speaking, he blew the hole flute and demonstrated, and with just one sound, Yan Liu really flew into the air.

"What kind of tone can make them rest?" Gu continued to ask.

The young man smiled slightly, picked up the flute, and blew a low and long tune, only to see those swallows gathered on the canvas pole.

Gu asked a few more questions after that, and the young man demonstrated them one by one.

"It's rare to be able to navigate them so skillfully, it's rare. However, your flute must not be blown at night, otherwise, something unforeseen will happen. Gu admired on the one hand, and admonished on the other.

"Before, I had never blown it in the night, but I didn't understand what would happen?" the young man asked Gu.

"This is a passage I've seen in the Elder Spirit's transcript. What happened was not specified. To be on the safe side, you don't blow at night. Gu replied.

The young man looked at Gu and nodded slightly.

After the boat arrived at the shore, Gu said goodbye to the boy and reminded the boy again not to break the taboo.

However, on the third day after Gu left, the captain told the young man, "Shen (young man's name), from today onwards, I have decided to make you a regular crew member, and you will be paid as much as we will in the future." ”

Hearing this, Shin was happy from the bottom of his heart, since his own mother died, his father married his stepmother, and his stepmother always mocked him for not earning a decent salary when he was old, and every time he heard this, he gritted his teeth and swore that one day he would prove it to her.

Now that his long-cherished wish has come true, and he can be respected by his stepmother openly, how can he not be happy?

That night, he completely forgot the advice of a spirit master named "Gu", and blew the hole flute on the deck, and the hole flute was halfway blown, he suddenly remembered what Gu told him, he quickly stopped, looked around, nothing special happened, so he had the courage to blow the second half again.

Then something strange happened, black mayfly creatures appeared in the sea, and they appeared around the boat like snakes, and then one of the boatmen shouted: "The boat is in the water!

Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, the ship began to tilt and finally sank in the sea.

Fortunately, the ship was almost ashore by then, and the crew was familiar with the water and was safe.

When the teenager came home, his stepmother hugged his younger brother and his younger sister stood beside him, and said, "Have you been paid this month's salary, and how much have you earned?"

The boy lowered his head and shook it.

"Didn't you say that you will be paid this month?"

The boy told the story of the shipwreck, explaining the reason why he did not get the salary.

"Hey...... Your father is so useless, and so is his son. Who else could I count on?" the stepmother stood up and walked away with a sad face.

Shen clenched his fists, and the unwillingness in his heart was only understood by himself.

Because of resentment and guilt, at night, the young man stood beside a locust tree in front of the door, blowing the hole flute, his voice was euphemistic and sad, with sadness and drowsiness, like a deep alley wine, deep and directionless.

At the end of the song, the boy went back, and when he opened the door, he saw that the house was full of dark snake-like creatures that snaked forward, the mysterious spirits that flooded the cargo ship, and they drilled holes in the adobe walls of the house, after which his stepmother suddenly fell ill for no reason, and her body was cold and very weak.

Coincidentally, Gu happened to pass by here that night, and he happened to stay with the family, when Gu saw the young man, saw the winding spirit in the house, and saw his sick relatives, Gu understood everything.

Gu didn't speak to the young man at first, but just said to the young man's father, "I can treat your wife's illness, she was sucked away by a spirit called 'Sea Thorn' to suck most of her essence like this. ”

The young man's father was just in a hurry, and didn't ask much about what the sea thorn was, but just asked Gu to hurry up and treat.

Gu then took out a stone with a hole from the wooden box, and the corners of his mouth were close to the holes of different sizes, blowing a sound.

Those sea thorns, hearing the sound, climbed up to Gu's body, Gu stood up, walked out, and reached the shore in front of this house, and then the sound stopped, and those sea thorns slowly burrowed into the reef in front of the coast.

As soon as the sea thorn left, the woman's condition eased a lot, Gu breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that the man was very excited, and then looking at the young man, he didn't have a trace of expression.

"You, break the taboo, if you broke it once, why do you have to break it a second time? You may have a special place, so you can see such a large spirit seed, but your parents can't see it anyway, since you can see something called a sea thorn, why are you standing at home and indifferent? At least find a way to solve it. That night, Gu and the boy sat on the lawn of the big tree in front of the house to communicate.

"To be honest, I wish this stepmother had left me completely, to a place I would never see. ”

"Ah...... She's your stepmother, stepmother......" Gu thought for a moment and didn't say any more.

The two of them were silent for a long time, and Gu said: "If at a certain moment, you still have to blow the hole flute at night, the sea thorn will still appear, the so-called sea thorn, as you can see, is a black creature similar to a snake, it can drill out of the gap in the earthy sand, which is the reason why there are so many holes in the house, and it is also the reason for the shipwreck." When sea thorns enter the family, they will concentrate on absorbing the essence of the weakest people, causing the victim's body to chill, and the severe cold will lead to death. The way to defeat it is to blow the hole flute during the day, attracting Yan Liu, who is the natural enemy of sea thorns and can kill them. ”

After speaking, Gu stood up and added, "No matter what kind of hatred there is, it's better to end it as soon as possible." Everything is in your actions. ”

Gu didn't say a word of farewell to the young man and disappeared into the night.

Later, the boy's stepmother angered him again, and he once again blew the flute at night, and the stepmother fell ill as she deservedly, and when she fell ill, the boy saw his father's despair, and saw his brother and sister having fun without knowing the world, and finally regretted it.

In the early hours of the morning, he sat on the thick branches of the big tree in front of his house and blew the flute. He still chose to save this stepmother he hated so much. Although I don't know if it's in line with my heart.

"Your mother is already like this, and you are still sitting on this tree playing your broken flute! What is wrong with you! I don't have a heartless son like you, get out of here! Get out of here!" came his father's shouting from behind him.

But the boy named Shen still played the hole flute. In the distance, he saw a white stream of swallows, coming towards him and flying into his home......

It was all over, the boy burst into tears, and now, not only his stepmother was still abusing him, but even his father hated him, so he chose to leave.

During the journey, Gu heard a story, someone told that the sailboat piloted by a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy was full of sails even in the windy and sunny weather, and it went very fast. From time to time there was a beautiful sound of the flute wafting on the boat, probably referring to the young man.