In the middle of the valley, on the edge of a deep stream, a young man in brown clothes and shorts, barefoot, with his back against a boulder, folding willow leaves, playing.

Soon, as if he was tired of it, the sunset was shining, and he was half-lying on the bluestone, holding his head in one hand and spreading it out in the other hand, and placed it in the dantian.

His eyes drooped, his eyes were half squinted and half opened, and his chest slowly rose and fell, like a turtle looking up to exhale, but he was practicing a simple kind of exhalation kung fu.

Soon, the sun set in the western mountains, and there was still residual warmth on the stones, and the boy seemed to be asleep.

There was a splash of water, and strange creatures with shrimp heads and stone forks on top of the stream came out of the water.

"The hour has come, it's time to go back."

The monster spat coldly, but it always sounded like a strange dialect.

The young man got up slowly, stretched his waist, and opened his mouth to let out a long white breath, which was more than four feet long, and hit the bluestone, leaving a shallow white mark.

On this huge bluestone, there are many marks like this, but they are all relatively shallow.

The imprints range from shallow to dark, and it can be seen that the teenager often practiced here.

Seeing this scene, this half-human, half-shrimp creature couldn't help but be jealous, and the shadow said strangely:

"The human race is really blessed, your kid can become a sword after only three months of practice, no wonder you can become an immortal in a few hundred years. Unlike our water tribes, we first have to open our spiritual wisdom by chance, and then we have to overcome the difficulty of transformation, and we have not been able to get a positive result after thousands of years of hard work. ”

Speaking of this, the shrimp soldier was even more furious, especially when he saw that this young man didn't even look at him.

At that moment, he swung his stone fork and danced in mid-air as if driving a flock of sheep.

"Hurry back, the goddess is going to count the number of people, go late and be careful with your skin."

Its big eyes looked up and down maliciously, and then laughed.

"Tinker Bell, I look at you white and pure, I'm afraid you can't stand the whip, right?"

The boy walked straight over, without looking away, step by step into the stream.

Just when he passed by this shrimp soldier, he said softly:

"Today I was promoted to chief waiter, and I am in a good mood, so I won't worry about you for the time being, just don't ask for my head in the future."

As he spoke, he shook a black jade waist card on his waist against the stream, and the water surface was separated to both sides, and the water flowing under his feet formed layers of soft stairs.

He just stepped on it, slowly entering the depths.

Faintly, you can see a shining crystal palace under the water, with the book "Xianxi Water House".

The shrimp soldier was still pondering his words.

"Chief? If he was promoted to the rank of chief attendant, wouldn't it be that he would be in charge of all the work assigned in the future? But this doesn't make sense, he's obviously a human race! ”

"Is it ········?"

The shrimp soldier thought of something, covered his mouth, looked around, and hurried back to Shuifu.

In the water house, it is magnificent, full of coral pearls, porcelain antiques, placed in various places in the palace.

There were a few shrimp soldiers and crabs guarding the door, and the young man passed smoothly after checking the waist card.

Only the Xianxi Priestess can enter and exit at the main gate of Shuifu, and there is another side door on the side, so he can enter and exit through the side door.

Every day he has three hours of opportunity to leave the water house and play on land.

After all, you are not born in the water, and you can't always stay underwater and not see the sun for a long time.

"Although Shuifu is good, it is not my home after all."

Walking on the brick surface paved with white jade in Shuifu, the young man thought secretly in his heart.

The waist card has another wonderful advantage in the water mansion, which can make him breathe like an aquarium without hindrance, and his body seems to be wrapped in water, but in fact, it is separated by a layer.

It has been three months since he practiced Qi Kung Fu, and now the young man can already feel an invisible power on his waist card, isolating the flow of water and filtering out the air, which is the biggest reason why he can survive in Shuifu as a mortal.

Along the way, there was no shortage of transformed clam essences, like girls in the world, wearing Qiluo palace clothes, and seeing him slightly sideways.

In the Water Mansion, they are all the lowest waiters, and when they see the young man, the chief waiter, they naturally have to take the initiative to salute.

At the age of seven, the boy and his sister were tied to a raft filled with flowers and fruits by the goddess who worshiped the god of water, and pushed into the water, becoming a boy and girl given to the god of water.

Orphaned since childhood, the young sister and brother depend on each other, even if they become the lowest waiters in Shuifu, they advance and retreat together.

In a blink of an eye, it was seven spring and autumn.

The young man has been living in Shuifu for seven years, and he has finally survived, from an ordinary waiter who does rough work, to a waiter who arranges flowers and plants, to a small leader in charge of two or three small leaders, a big leader in charge of the medicine garden, and now a general waiter in charge of all the waiters.

He is in a place in Shuifu, has his own single-door courtyard, and as the chief attendant, he finally has some preferential treatment.

The water house is very large, covering an area of dozens of acres, and there are two or three hundred shrimp crabs and various aquarium spirits.

Don't look at Xianxi is just a small body of water that is not more than three zhang wide and no more than 20 miles long, the goddess of Xianxi is a water god, with Maolin Jiang clan behind her, and she has a big head!

If it weren't for this, how could it afford to build such a large crystal palace and sit on the foundation of thousands of believers along the way?

When I got to the accommodation, it was just a simple small yard with two or three rooms.

One of them was his bedroom, the other was his study, and the last one was a meditation room for cultivation.

Three months ago, he made a meritorious service, received a reward from the goddess, and had the qualifications to cultivate the Fa, so he was specially given such a stone house made of bluestone.

When I walked into the yard, I saw my sister wearing a turquoise water-sleeved dress greet me.

"Sister, I'm free today, how can I have the time to come to my brother's place?"

My sister Ding Yuchen is the bookkeeper who is in charge of the income and expenditure of the Water House, or rather, the bookkeeper.

In this water house, there are also ushers in and out, and the cost is not small, and it is a trouble to enter and exit the water every month.

When my sister was a child, she learned abacus under her mother's knees, managed the family's accounts, and knew how to read, so she finally got this errand.

There are a lot of transformed aquariums in the water house, but it is really rare to be literate, plan the plate, and understand the account book.

Otherwise, it would not be her turn to be a small character.

That's right, it is the small characters, most of those water tribes have spiritual wisdom after being enlightened by the goddess of Xianxi, and the youngest has followed the goddess for fifty or sixty years.

It's just that in the end, they didn't transform by themselves, and it seemed that the goddess didn't pay much attention to this transformation, so they didn't completely transform all the time, either with a shrimp head or a dancer's pincers.

On weekdays, Ding Yuchen is also very busy, the cashier of the whole house, even if it is a silk horse and a pot of flowers, there is a fixed number, and there are records in and out of the warehouse, and she needs to count with a pen, and there can be no mistakes.

The goddess was born in the Jiang clan of Maolin, and it is said that this clan can also climb to the same level as the Dragon King of the South China Sea, and is also quite famous among the landowners in this area of Maolin.

Every ten days and a half months, you can always meet a few guests, either the land in one place or the mountain god and water god elsewhere. The god of the stream, or the god of wild and hairy who has no serious duties, came to visit.

Therefore, in general, the older sister is much busier than the younger brother.

"Ding Dang, listen to your sister."

Ding Yuchen took his younger brother's hand, walked to the depths of the courtyard, and lowered his voice.

"Three months later, there will be another banquet, this time it is a ghost banquet, you must take the opportunity to escape, otherwise...... In short, my sister will definitely help you. ”

Ding Yuchen's heart was burning like fire, he held his brother's hand tightly, and said in fear.

"What is the Ghost Feast?"

Ding Dang asked curiously, this was the first time he had heard of this kind of banquet, which had never been held in Shuifu before.

"Ghost feast, that's a place to eat people.

You and me, are all rooted mortals selected by the goddess, according to their teachings some rough and shallow methods, exhale clear qi, remove yin and drain turbidity, and when the time is full, it is a good dish, and within three hundred miles nearby, the ghost banquet here is the most famous. ”

My sister's life is ruined, but you're still there, and I can't watch you fall here......

You escape, don't run around first, go and hide in the Three Holy Temple, I have inquired, there is the ancestral temple of the Three Holy Beings, which is dedicated to the ancient gods that existed at the beginning of the development, and they will never dare to go in and search for people. ”

After saying all these words, Ding Yuchen looked at his younger brother tightly, as if he wanted to reflect his voice and smile in his heart.

"Understand? You must get out! ”

"On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, there will be ghosts and gods from all walks of life on that day, and there will be a banquet according to the custom, which is the last chance, but you can't wait for the day when the ghost banquet arrives."

"You remember, that day the goddess will definitely have no time to clone, you take the time to slip away, lose your waist card, take the path and go straight to the Three Holy Temple, my sister will cover you!"

"Remember! Don't come back! ”

Ding was shocked, thought about it carefully, and did think about a few things that were wrong.

"Yes, there are boys and girls sacrificed every year, and it stands to reason that there should always be more than a dozen people in the past seven years, why are there only two of my sisters and brothers now?"

"Also, inexplicably promoted me to the chief attendant, even beyond the old man who followed me all the year round, which is unreasonable. As for the small credit of recovering the hairpin left by the guest, it is just an excuse. ”

"As for teaching me the method of refining qi, it's just to make the ingredients more delicious."

"What a salty creek goddess, a water god who eats people!"

He held his sister's hands and said with red eyes:

"Sister, let's go together!"

Ding Yuchen withdrew his hand and shook his head.

"You and I are originally hostages to each other, how can we have the opportunity to go out of the house together? Have you seen me leave with you all these years? ”

Without waiting for Ding Dang to answer, she answered first.

"Never once! Every time I'm either called in to take inventory, or there's some old account somewhere, or something bothering you········ In short, you and I are sisters and brothers, and because of this, with me as a hostage, you have the blessing of going out of the house to play for three hours every day, maybe you haven't understood it yet, brother! ”

Like a thunderbolt from the sky, Ding Dang laughed miserably, almost didn't know how to answer, only felt that he was really lost in the mud, and it was like living in a dream in the past.

Any stable days are false, like bubbles.

It turned out that the reason why he had the "privilege" of going ashore for three hours a day was all obtained by his sister as collateral!

"Brother, it's good if you understand··········· In the past, I saw through it, but I can't say it, just because I have no choice, otherwise where can you and my sister and brother go except to stay in Shuifu? ”

Her eyes were filled with tears.

"There are no elders in the family, the clan is full of jackals, and the dignified county lord's house was selected as a sacrifice by the goddess in the temple, how can it be a tragic word?"

"You and I are young, we can stay here and live, even if we escape, where can we go? It's hard to go back to a home, not to mention that we are all treated as dead, those people in the clan must have already carved up the real estate in the family, and it will be difficult to escape the disaster of death if we go back. ”

Ding Dang was ashamed and angry, hating the shameless framing of the elders in the clan, hating his own powerlessness, hating this cannibalistic ghost and god, and even more ashamed that he had always let his sister think so much for himself.

"Sister, it's my fault, I didn't even know you did so much ········"

Ding Yuchen burst into tears, stretched out his hand and slowly stroked his brother's head.

"Eldest sister is like a mother, who called you my own brother? I don't protect you, who else can protect you? ”

"Sister·········

Ding Dang choked up, stepped forward to hug his sister and cried silently.

Ding Yuchen just patted his younger brother lightly on the back.

"Brother, you were born extraordinary, my father once said when he was alive, when he was pregnant with you, his mother dreamed of the red sun in his arms, and when he was born, he was even more fragrant and slow, and the snow in front of and behind the house melted, saying that you must be a sage who came into the world, and you are destined to be in the picture and leave your name in history!"

"He also said that the ancestors of our Ding family are the eighteen ministers who founded the country, the Duke of Huaihai, and there is still a county title that has been passed on to you, and maybe the glory of the ancestors will be restored in the future."

"Unfortunately, I can't see ············"

She is only three months older than her brother, so she has to take on responsibilities that do not belong to her, and she has to protect her brother from the wind and rain.

In this strange underwater palace, there are strange water tribes everywhere, who can know how much effort she has put in and how much she has suffered.

"Brother, you have to remember, you must be careful after you go back, our parents died strangely. Daddy is a person with a knighthood, and his violent death should have alarmed Dali Temple, according to the laws of Daliao, the government and the county should have thoroughly investigated the matter, but after the accident, half of the figure was not seen, and there must be a big secret in it. ”

"So you can't appear as a member of the Ding family, let alone be easily involved in this matter, incognito is the best policy."

Ding Yuchen thought that he was going to be separated from his younger brother from now on, and he couldn't help but feel sad, and he had to beat his spirit and explain all kinds of things clearly.

It was not easy for her to come out once, and as the ghost banquet approached, the surveillance of her became more and more strict.

This time she also ran out of thin air, and the time was very tight, so she couldn't help but talk slowly.

"Brother, you have to keep in mind! A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late! ”

Ding Yuchen grabbed his brother's hand and looked at him and nodded solemnly.

"Whether it's the cause of my father's death, or the ungrateful clansmen, or the ghosts and gods in the vicinity, the goddess who forced the two of us to be sacrifices in the first place········ None of them are easy to deal with! ”

"You must be cautious and cautious! If it doesn't work, you won't have the idea of revenge! ”

"Promise me!"

Ding Dang is already crying into tears, he is still a child after all!

"Okay, I promise my sister that if it doesn't become a big deal, I will never think of revenge!"

Ding Yuchen could see that his younger brother really remembered it in his heart, and he was relieved.

"That's good, that's good, when your brother is in the court in the future, and the power is overwhelming, you can be regarded as a great achievement, and you can't do what you want to do!"

"When I have the power to conquer the world, I will settle them one by one, and call them to pay for their blood debts and blood!"

The young man cried and said cruel words.