Mingzhu had a long dream.

The story in the dream is a bit cliché. In the dream, Mingzhu is no longer a teenage girl, but a little fish demon who is not very profound.

The little demon has only been cultivating for a hundred years, and he has just shed the skin of a mortal thing, the roots of the scales began to redden, and the tail fin gradually became transparent. Although he has some cultivation, it is only to the extent that his spiritual wisdom has just opened, and it seems that he is more agile than ordinary fish.

The cultivation of spirits is already difficult, there is no family inheritance and no ethnic talent, and it is even more difficult to attain the Tao of scattered cultivation. A helpless little carp, it is rare to cultivate for a hundred years, but it still can't escape the fate of being caught in a net.

The fisherman was also lucky today, and he braved the wind and rain to go out of the boat a few days ago. There were only a few small fry an inch long, but today it was only the first net, and a red carp half a meter long was caught.

The fishermen's harvest today is good, and the whole boat is full after a few nets. The man happily collected the net, stopped in the middle of the river, lit a bag of dry tobacco, and smoked it, happily calculating how much money this boatload of fish could make.

The pearl is placed alone in a wooden barrel filled with water, and this kind of people who rely on the sky for food have always been superstitious, and regard good omen as extremely important. The fisherman felt that most of the harvest today was due to the blessing of this red carp, and others feared the ghosts and gods, although this man did not care much, but he also felt very lucky, and he set the asking price of the red carp higher when he sold the fish.

The market was bustling with activity, with pearls swimming in a wooden basin that was placed in front of a fish stall, and the rare red carp attracted many onlookers. Someone shouted to the fisherman: "Old Wangtou, did you catch this red carp?" ”

"No!" The old king's expression was a little proud, and his tone was also full of pride, "I went down to the net, and the fish next to me was not caught, and I caught such a fish, since I hit this one, the luck is really good, and I almost can't lift it up after a few nets in a row." ”

"Wow! This is auspicious," the man sighed just now, "why don't you keep it, maybe you can catch a full boat next time." ”

"When did my old king believe this?" He pursed his lips, "If any of you think this thing is auspicious, I will sell it to you for two taels of silver." ”

"Two taels of silver? You're crazy. The man who asked just now screamed strangely, looking at the old king's eyes as if he was looking at a madman, "It's just a big fish, and you're embarrassed to ask for two or two?!" ”

The people around echoed it, and it was only three cents to buy a fish on weekdays, which was enough for three months for an ordinary family of five.

"If you can't afford it, you won't buy it," the old king picked up a fish and knocked it out, disemboweling and disemboweling skillfully, and the movements in his hands did not affect his mouth at all, "There are always people who know the goods, right?" If I run into a big guy who is willing to spend money to buy this fish, then I don't have to go out fishing for a month? Who wants to go out and suffer if they can lie down at home peacefully? Hey, guest, your fish, sanme! ”

"Tsk, what if you can't sell it?" I didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement, so I asked as if I was coaxing.

"If you can't sell it, you will slaughter and sell the meat," the old king picked up another fish, "Anyway, I have made a lot of this fish, and today's sale is enough for me to go home and lie down for two days." ”

"I think you just want to sleep with your mother-in-law." Someone shouted, and the onlookers burst into laughter.

The old king's tanned skin was a little red, and he waved the stick in his hand and hurried: "Go, go." ”

The crowd laughed a few times and then gradually dispersed, and several children squatted in front of the tub and poked Mingzhu's crimson back with their fingers, Mingzhu twisted her body, and the water swept by her tail splashed the child's face. The old king took the mallet and gestured in front of a few children as if frightened, and the children laughed and ran away.

When they arrived at the bazaar, there was nothing wronged, and the big man was willing to spend two taels of silver to buy this fish and go. The old king closed the stall, squatted in front of the wooden basin and looked at Mingzhu for a long time, clapped his hands and got up: "Forget it, it's okay to bring it back and show me that cub." ”

The old king walked back with the bamboo basket on his back, calculated the money he made from selling fish today, and laughed unconsciously.

Lao Wangtou lives in the east of the village, and his family has no land, and the family depends on him for fishing. The neighbor was a scholar who made a living by copying books and selling paintings to people. In the past few days, the book has been very sick, and the old king sees him a little pitiful, so from time to time he cooks at home and will let his son bring some to him, and the neighbors should take care of it more.

When the old king passed by the door of the scholar's house with the bamboo basket on his back, he heard a cough from inside, he thought about it, went home and put down the bamboo basket, and stewed the soup with the leftover fish sold today. The old king's daughter-in-law is newly pregnant, so she has to eat some meat to make up for it. The milky white fish soup was fragrant, and the old king filled a bowl of fish soup, and there was a piece of fish meat half the size of a palm in the soup, and called his son to come in and asked him to send the soup to the scholar next door.

The scholar is also a sincere person, dragging his sick body and insisting on coming over to thank the old king, and brought two pennies, but the old king refused to accept it, and let him go back after a few arguments.

The red carp was put back into the tub and placed in the old king's small courtyard, and when he went out, he saw the old king's daughter-in-law sitting on the side, sharpening scissors, intending to kill the fish. The scholar coughed twice, looked at the fish in the basin, and was a little unbearable, so he turned his head and said to the old king, can you sell this red carp to him.

The old king asked his daughter-in-law to stop, glanced at the scholar, shook his head, and finally gave the fish to the sick scholar.

The scholar looked a little frightened, thanked him repeatedly, walked out with the red carp, and accidentally fell when he walked to the door. The old king helped him up, and he went out with a thousand thanks.

When the old king cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, he found that there were two copper plates pressed under the bowl, and he looked in the direction next door, and it seemed that he could faintly hear the sound of coughing. The next day the old king was mending the fishing nets in the yard, and his son was digging earthworms in the yard, and there were ten copper plates under a stone at the door. The old king looked at the copper plate stained with soil, and finally sighed.

The scholar took the pearl back and put it in the water tank to keep alive, and the red carp, which had been a little embarrassed, became lively again in a few days.

I didn't remember the one next to Mingzhu, but I remembered the scholar's voice and smile clearly. The scholar's health gradually improved, and on a very good day, the scholar carried a wooden basin to the river and detained the whole basin in the river.

The scholar scooped up the wooden basin, put it aside, and said to Mingzhu with a smile: "Let's go, be smart, don't be arrested next time." ”

Mingzhu wagged his tail and sank to the bottom of the water, and after a while the whole fish floated upward, and the scholar was still standing in place looking at the water, and the smile on his face shook Mingzhu's two not crystal bright fish eyes.