The drizzle did not stop overnight.

It rained all night, even the rope east hid and fled all night, and he didn't dare to stop, the man's knife was extremely fast, if his disease had not yet attacked, he could be the enemy, but now his chest was rotten and painful, he was better than dead, he was really going to meet, but he was afraid that he would not be able to take a few knives, and he would fall, not to mention, the other party should have more than one person?

He has walked the rivers and lakes over the years, and he has seen a lot of deception and killing, and he is suspicious in his heart, for fear that the people around him are either enemies or people who want to covet his "fairy rope", they are all people who want to kill him, not to mention that he is a killer.

When did there become such a master of making fast knives in the capital? Enemies?

Hidden in the arch of a stone bridge, even the rope was shivering in pain, his face was covered with cold sweat, and the whole person was embarrassed and depressed like a beggar who had been begging for food for many years, with thick juice flowing in his chest, and a bandaged bloody mouth on his leg, miserable and pitiful.

It's almost impossible to hide here, the stream is getting deeper, the water level is getting longer, and if he can't stay up for long, he will be flooded, and he will start hiding again.

The smoke and rain dispersed, such as the rain falling, the stream seemed to have a faint mist, the rooster crowed in the distance, and the dog barked, the clouds were thick, and the rain today was afraid that it could not be stopped.

"Dingding-ding-"

As he was slowing down his breath and closing his eyes to tune in, he suddenly heard a soft sound on the raft on the stream, like a pearl rolling and a jade ring colliding and knocking, and the listener's heartstrings trembled.

Lian Lian looked up in surprise, and saw a small boat on the side of the stream, and a little fisherman girl sat on the bow of the boat, her feet hanging down into the stream, sliding her feet, laughing like a warbler's cry, and playing with nine links in her hands.

Actually came back here.

Lian was a little silent.

After all, the human heart is flesh and blood, not stone, no matter how ruthless and poisonous it is, it is ruthless, peeled off, there are also weak places, especially when you are the saddest and most helpless, it is as if you are in the ice and snow, although you have adapted to the cold, and even not to be afraid, but where there is a trace of warmth and light, you will always approach uncontrollably, which is an irresistible instinct of people.

A piece of cake.

He ate that piece of bread very safely, don't worry about who is poisoned, although he is not too full, but he feels surprisingly warm, a person who suffers between life and death, climbs the mountains, walks through the valleys, has seen flowers, and has experienced filth, in fact, in the end, I will look at it, what I really want, that is, peace and plainness.

Lei Bin is like this, Drizzle is like this, and even he is like this.

All I want is a home.

And he is still an old man, a childless, daughterless, homeless old man, such an ordinary piece of locust cake, isn't it the most prosaic and reassuring thing.

A chill hit him, and even the rope came back to his senses, the stream had overflowed, and he was busy drilling out of the arch of the bridge, and he wanted to go, but when he was in the wind and rain, he listened to the laughter of the girls on the stream, and the roosters and dogs barked, but their feet seemed to be fixed, and suddenly there was a kind of dazed, at a loss.

What has he received in more than 60 years? Immortal Suo? Or is it an injury in this body, a lonely and lonely one? In the end, it ended up in such a field, the world is so big, it seems that there is no place for it, and it is really desperate.

"Why are you again? You don't want to hide from such heavy rain? ”

Turning her head, the little girl by the stream seemed to see him, sitting in the boat, with bright eyes and blinking eyelids.

"Do you regret changing bread with me?"

She was a little delicate and put the nine rings in her hand and pinched them, and saw that the nine rings were like flowers.

"You see, I'll do it too, it's not too difficult!"

The little girl seemed to be showing off.

In one night, Lian Lian saw that this female doll could follow his solution and change method yesterday, and kept trying to change the nine links.

His eyes changed, and he asked:

"What's your name?"

The little girl glanced at him vigilantly: "How? Want to get the Nine Rings back? ”

Lian Lian stopped talking, shook his head silently, and walked under the locust tree, seeking shelter from the wind and rain.

Seeing that he didn't speak, the little girl couldn't bear to be lively, got off the boat and cautiously came over, she squirmed and hesitated: "Or, I'll give you a few more pieces of bread, don't you regret it?" ”

The tone is shy.

It's like loving the nine rings in my hand.

Sitting on the ground, seeing the little girl's anxious appearance, he was silent for a while, and asked, "Will you solve it?" ”

The little girl was stunned for a moment, then nodded busily, and said crisply: "Yes, I saw you solve it yesterday, so I pondered it for a while, you see that I will turn into a flower!" ”

As he spoke, he sat under the tree and changed the nine rings by himself.

Lian Lian didn't say anything, just watched quietly from the side, and saw that the little girl solved and solved, and conjured up a few tricks in a row, all of which he had changed yesterday, and then he asked, "Have you solved it before?" ”

"No, I've seen it in front of the Confucius Temple, how can I have spare money to buy this!" The little girl lowered her head and played with herself, and the jade rings collided again and again, crisp and pleasant.

The two of them seemed to be reversed as if they were yesterday, and they looked at each other with ropes, just as the little girl looked at him yesterday.

"Look, I'm going to be another one!"

Occasionally, there were exclamations of joy, and the little girl happily shook the jade ring like a lantern, very happy.

Lian Lian's stiff and wooden face was even touched by the ghost, as if he was also laughing.

He asked again.

"Do you like juggling?"

The little girl replied:

"I like it!"

Lian Lian said: "Why? ”

The little girl looked up, a little puzzled.

"What, why?"

"You have to have a reason to like something, you can't like it for no reason!"

"Hmm, is it fun to be happy? Isn't juggling just a joy to watch? ”

Hearing this answer, Lian Lian's eyes trembled slightly for some reason, and he sighed faintly.

But when it came to this, the little girl was a little embarrassed and said shyly: "If I can make people happy, I can make money again, and live a better life, it would be better, but those craftsmen always say that men are not passed on to women, and I can't learn!" ”

She was a little down.

Lian Lian smiled, but his face was tense.

"That's their fart, they are all misguided children, how many tricks in this world are lost because of these broken rules, and the more they are spread, the less they are spreading, and they are abducted and deceived every day with small tricks!"

"When I was in school, there were a lot of people who said that, and in the end, I was all -" Speaking of this rope, he suddenly stopped.

The little girl opened her eyes and asked curiously, "What happened in the end?" ”

Lian shook his head.

"Say no more!"

He suddenly put his hands under the cloak and touched it, and then took it out, and there was already an extra object in his hand, it was a wooden tool, boxy, the size of a palm, and the surface texture was vertical and horizontal.

"Do you know this?"

The little girl shook her head.

Lian Lian said: "This is called Luban lock, but this is a little different from the ordinary Luban lock, this is my own doing, usually sharpen my fingers flexibly, you see if you can disassemble it, and then put it back!" ”

The little girl answered, and took a closer look, only to feel that the wooden lock seemed to be integrated, and there was no way to start, just like a square piece of wood, which was polished to a very smooth surface.

I didn't mention it, I just watched.

The little girl had no clue, but she looked at her eyes flashing with light and cunning, rubbing each side with her fingers, this Luban lock looked the same on all six sides, but the surface seemed to have some slightly concave traces because of perennial play, only a few slightly concave places were gently pressed, and a long piece of wood was immediately pushed out of the wooden lock, and the wooden lock that was originally tightly seamled seemed to have no support in an instant, and it was scattered all over the place.

Lian Lian saw her caution, not only did he not get angry, but smiled: "You are very smart, then you try to spell it back!" ”

At this moment, a shout came from the boats on the side of the stream:

"Silver Bell, it's time to get out of the boat!"

The little girl answered under the tree, and then picked up the wooden blocks of different lengths on the ground.

"Uncle, you wait for me!"

She ran out of the locust tree, and was not in the rain, but soon ran back, and with three loaves in her hand, she raised her sleeves to shield herself from the rain, and put the loaves in her hand, and then hurried back.

The stream flowed, the smoke and rain were hazy, and when I saw the Wupeng boat rowing upstream, it disappeared, and then Lian Lian lowered his eyes, looked at the cake silently, and muttered for a while: "It turns out that tricks make people happy?" ”

He took a bite of the cake.

……

The boat went up the stream, and the silver bell sat in the black peng, holding the light rain, half-revealing his petite body, shaking a pair of smooth little feet, and smiled at the oars who were rocking the oars and rowing at the stern of the boat: "Sir, you are so smart, that old man is really surprised that I can unlock the nine links, and gave me a Luban lock!" ”

"Did you say he would pass on my immortal rope?"

At the stern of the boat, the man in the hat raised his head, revealing a face that would never be forgotten by anyone who saw it, his eyes were smiling, his teeth were slightly exposed, and he said softly: "Yes, what he wants to pass on to you now is not only the fairy Suo, but these things are the troubles that people can solve!" ”

"The end is decided!"

The wind and rain are full of sky, the stream is endless, the clear water is like jade, the water mist is stirred up between the ripples, reflecting the reflection of the towers on both sides, the lonely boat swaying and sinking into the depths of the smoke and rain, accompanied by the laughter of the silver bell that the little girl is fading away, and disappears.