"Don't listen to his nonsense! You follow me, I understand people's hearts, you understand swordsmanship, where will we be together? Zhao Wuxian deliberately said these words to make you unhappy! ”

"He wants to make me unhappy?" Innocent looked at me with a frown.

I took the opportunity to squeeze his hand and said, "Are you happy to find out the secret agent in Luming Tower?" Are you happy to know that Chen Heng is plotting against him? Knowing what the initial tax is and what the land endowment is, are you happy? ”

"Not happy."

"That's right! You don't need to know what I said to Zhao Wuxian a few days ago. You know you're going to be tired, you're going to be unhappy, and if you're not happy, I'm going to be unhappy too. You see, you've been unhappy for the past few days, and I'm worried about gray hair. ”

"Where's the gray hair?" Innocent was startled, and reached out to turn my hair.

I hurriedly took his hand and said, "They haven't grown yet, but if you keep frowning like this all day, they will all grow out in two days." With gray hair, I'll be old. When I'm old, I'll have wrinkles all over my face and my teeth will fall out......"

"Don't get old!" Innocent pulled out his hand and covered my face.

"Then don't fall for Zhao Wuxian. You see, he knows so much, knows so much, and knows so many means, that I like him. And you don't have to understand anything, you don't have to do anything, I already like you. You're much better than him, don't always think about what to compare with him in the future, in fact, you've already won. ”

"Really?"

"Of course it's true." I smiled and nodded vigorously.

"What a thing!" With a bang, I was suddenly slapped the head.

"Zhao Wuxian-" This palm, Wuxian seemed to use all his strength, my head felt like someone had been hit with a stone, and the pain made my whole body numb.

"Gone, the boat is hired. While the wind is blowing from the southeast, hurry up and get on board! Ignoring my cries, he grabbed me by the collar and dragged me all the way to the boat.

The three of them got on the boat, and the originally depressed innocent couldn't help but smile at the Wuxian who was sitting across from him.

At first, Wuxian pretended to be admiring the beautiful scenery on both sides of the Yishui River, but after half an hour, Wuxie's triumphant appearance finally made him unable to help it, and he said angrily: "Ah Shi-you told him to stop laughing!" ”

"Ho! Zhao Wuxian, you really can't see me happy! Innocent leaned in front of Shirtless and deliberately squinted his eyes and grinned to reveal a big smile, "You want to make me worry, I'm happy to show you." ”

"What did you say to him? When did I want to worry him? Shirtless turned his head to look at me with a depressed expression.

"My head hurts, I forgot." I rubbed my head and refused to answer.

"You two ......" Wuxian looked at me, then at the innocence in front of him, and sneered, "Although that Kongqiu likes to curse, I found that he has a sentence today that is very reasonable." ”

"What?" I asked.

"Only women and villains are difficult to raise (1)!"

"You don't have to worry about the two of us! I'm not a villain, and I don't need you to raise me. Innocent smiled and leaned over the side of the boat, half-lying in the boat and humming.

The water under the sun shimmered with sparkling waves, innocently swept away the haze of the previous days, the smile on his face was brighter than the sun, and he turned his head to look at Wushirt again, and his face was cloudy.

"Boat family, my brother is depressed in his heart, you can sing a nice tune for Zhiludi!" I reached out to take the shirtless hand and shouted at the old boatman who was standing at the bow of the boat.

"The old man can't sing well!" The old boatman laughed and shouted at a small boat carrying vegetables and fruits next to him, "Hey-fruit seller, the guest wants to buy your Qiling, you can sing a tune!" ”

"Come on—" When the fruit seller heard this, he immediately rowed his canoe and came up.

"Boatman, you really know how to pull deals for people!" I glanced at the old boatman with a smile, turned around and squeezed Wuxi's hand, "Don't be angry with him, give me a handful of millet, and I'll change you for water chestnuts to eat." ”

"You peel it, I'll eat it." Shirtless glanced at the water chestnut on the canoe.

"Little maid respectfully."

"Where do you want to listen to the tune?" The fruit seller picked up a burlap bag from the board, untied the rope with a grin, and approached me with the bag open, "Thank you, girl, one millet for two strings of lings." ”

"I want four strings." I opened the grain bag handed over by Wushirt and reached out to grab a handful of millet, but the fruit seller flatteringly moved the burlap bag in his hand to the shirtless side: "The girl has small hands, let's let this big brother catch it!" ”

"Haha, how do I think you Lu people are better at trading than Qi people! Okay, okay, let him catch you. I smiled and handed the grain bag to Wuxian, turned to the fruit seller and said, "Then you can also pick a few strings of water chestnuts with a big head for me." I like to eat old and powdery. ”

"Come on!" The fruit seller accepted the shirtless two handfuls of millet and handed me four strings of fresh and plump red water chestnuts with a smile, "Where do you want to listen to the tune?" Lu Guo's is not good, do you want to hear Yue's 'Cai Ling tune' girl? ”

"Are you Yueren? That's good, let's sing a song! I took the water chestnut and put it on my lap and said with a smile.

"Girl, listen up!" The fruit seller slowly pushed the canoe half a foot away from the side of our boat with the pulp, and then sat down in his boat full of fruits and vegetables, rowing and singing a melodious tune.

Although I couldn't understand what he was singing, his clean and clear voice, with the undulating tone like flowing water, couldn't help but remind me of that dream-like beautiful woman from the country of Yue. I don't know what kind of beautiful mountains and rivers there are in the far south, in Shi Yiguang's hometown.

Listening to the sound of water, oars, and singing, in the warm breeze, we ate water chestnuts and sat down the river in a small boat, and arrived at Yinan City smoothly when it was close to dusk.

Starting from Yinan City, to the west is Ludu Qufu, but I can't wait to go east into Jiaoyuan Mountain.

On the other side of Jiaoyuan Mountain, there is the sea that I have been thinking about for a long time.

Because of the presence of Shirtless by my side, I am full of anticipation for this trip, and it is because of him that we have food to accompany us from beginning to end of this journey. Fried fish in a clay kettle on a small boat, mud-grilled pheasant in Jiaoyuan Mountain, and boiled rice soup with 100 snails in a small fishing village...... We didn't have any money on us, but every meal, Innocent and I ate to our heart's content, and our bellies were round.

On the road, I couldn't help but want to say to Wuxian several times, let's not go back to Xinjiang! Let us leave the intrigues and struggles and go around the nations! We can open a tavern in Zheng Guo, I make wine, you cook; We can go to Yunmeng Daze to live in seclusion, I collect medicine, and you hunt; We can go to Yan Kingdom, I will be a Fangshi to refine medicine and cheat money, and you will be a shepherd and herd horses on the grassland......

But after all, I didn't say anything, and the Master once said that you should be content to be a human being.

After two nights on the Jiaoyuan Mountains, on the third night we finally arrived at a small fishing village near the sea. An elderly couple in the village who made a living from fishing took us in.

At this time, there were no stars or moons in the sky, and the sky and the earth were shrouded in a deep darkness. I stood on the roof and looked out at the sea not far away, but I could only hear the sound of the tide one after another.

This night I dreamed about the sea with the sound of the eternal tide, and I could barely sleep with anticipation and excitement.

Before dawn the next day, Shirtless carried me out of the boarding house after I had just slept.

"Ah Shi, didn't you say you wanted to see the sunrise? The sun is coming out, wake up. In the haze, the gentle voice of the unscrupulous sounded in my ears.

I struggled to half-prop up my heavy eyelids and poked my head out from behind him: "Lie to me...... It's still dark......" I muttered, slowly closing my eyes again. But the moment I closed my eyes, half a circle of golden-red light suddenly appeared on my eyelashes.

Is it sunshine? The blue and purple I just saw is not the sky, but the sea!

My spirits suddenly lifted and I immediately opened my eyes.

Ah, that's the sea......

I stared at the blue and purple sea in the morning and jumped off my shirtless back: "This is the end of the world you say?" This is where heaven and earth meet? I stepped on the soft sand under my feet and ran towards the sea, "What's that?" Is it the sun? "I stood in front of the endless sea, pointed to a glowing arc of red light in the sky, and turned to ask Wuxian.

"Well, this place is called Gan Yuan. According to the legend of the Dongyi people, the sun becomes filthy after a long night, and the goddess Xihe bathes the sun here, so that the sun that shines on all things every day is clean. ”

"Xihe? You said last night that all the people living in this fishing village are descendants of the Xihe tribe? ”

"Well, the Xihe people have lived here for thousands of years, and this beach is where they worship the sun god every year. The water of Ganyuan can remove filth, do you think we two bad people should wash with the sun? Shirtless smiled and dragged my hand slowly into the water.

Beyond the southeast sea, between the sweet waters, there is the country of Xihe. There is a woman named Xihe, the wife of Emperor Jun, who was born for ten days, and Fang Yu was in Ganyuan (2).

It turns out that this is Gan Yuan......

I stood in the cold water, looking at the golden-red arc in the east, the waves of water under my feet hitting my calves, and I suddenly felt that I had become very light, as light as a splash on the tip of the wave.

"Look, the sun is jumping out of the bottom of the sea." Shirtless let go of my hand and pointed to the place where the water and the sky met.

"Hongyun'er, I, I can't seem to stand still." Before I could finish my sentence, I swayed and sat down in the cold water.

Wuxian looked at me and was slightly stunned, then tilted his head and laughed: "Silly girl, are you really planning to take a bath here?" ”

"Don't laugh—" The sea beat against my chest in waves, and I looked up, and where I was face to face, a bright red sun suddenly poked out half of its head from the bottom of the sea, and it looked at me secretly like a child who loves to watch the excitement and pulled a colorful cloud with a smile.

"If you really want to take a bath in Ganyuan, you have to wait until noon, the water is cold in the morning, get up quickly!" Shirtless smiled and held out his hand to me, and I looked at him and nodded, reaching out and grabbing his fingers and pulling them down.

The shirtless hand was like a cunning fish, and it slid into my palm and fled. I lost my body and was swept straight on the beach by a wave that followed closely.

The unbridled laughter rang out again, and I buried my head in the sand, feeling like I had never been so embarrassed as I was now.

Remarks (1) from "The Analects of Yang Goods"

(2) From "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness South Classic"

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