Late one night in 701 years of Qianxing, the mainland suddenly came to the ground and woke up thousands of dreamers, the old man Jiang was startled, hurriedly got up and walked to the door, the dark night above his head was the starry sky became extremely terrifying, the black clouds of the whirlpool were pressed very low, and the empty flowing cloud hole in the middle seemed to suck people's souls, so that the old man stared at it without looking away.

There was silence all around, but when I listened intently, I could hear the sound of the clouds above pressing the air and the distant waves behind me, and I wondered if it was caused by this strange night.

The steady popping sound of the stream at the bottom of the slope woke up the old man who was in a fugue, and when the old man went downhill, he saw that the stream, which was flowing slowly and clearly, was like boiling water in a pot, and the fish and shrimp kept jumping out of the water and sinking down.

Old man Jiang has no relatives and no reason, staying alone in the mountains and wilderness far away from human habitation, in a small cabin by the forest stream, there are fish, beasts hunting and fruit picking, and he feels that he is living like an immortal in this life. But it's not really an immortal who doesn't need to eat and drink, he also needs ordinary things, so fishing and selling for money has become one of his daily activities.

Now looking at the fish competing to jump out of the water, how can the old man Jiang ignore it, "It doesn't matter if it's a natural disaster or a flood, there are fish that make it easy for me to catch, why not?" Old man Jiang ran back to the house, picked up two large buckets, picked up the fishing nets in the corner, and returned to the stream, happily netting the fish that jumped on the water.

After netting for almost an hour, the old man Jiang sighed and collapsed on the stone, looking up at the sky, it was still the same as before, the flowing clouds gathered everywhere kept pouring into the heart of the cave, he looked against the flow to the scattered distance, and a touch of red appeared in the sky far ahead, and the left and right were still black, except for the front, there was a line of red light between heaven and earth in the south direction.

Old man Jiang stared at the red light for a long time, probably trying to see the secret inside, but Xing was just taken away from his sight by this strong color. Suddenly, he shook his head, got up and patted the dust on the hem of his clothes, and when he reached out to carry the bucket, he froze, his eyes fixed on the stream. The stream actually flowed backwards!

Old man Jiang turned his head suddenly, yes, the water downstream was flowing slowly upward, and during the time when the old man was looking at the sky in a daze, when they would meet and when they would be replaced, the old man didn't know at all. Just as he was surprised, a black shadow quietly flowed up from downstream.

Old man Jiang took a few steps back, staring at the black shadow on the water, and when it flowed to the old man in front of him, he realized that the black shadow was actually a baby.

The old man hurried to follow, reached for the net, and picked up the baby, who had not moved.

Wrapped around the baby was a beast fur that the old man had never seen before, yellow as earth, with a red tip, delicate and thick and warm fur, and the outermost swaddle made of black flannel. But the most conspicuous thing was the blood stains on the child's white face, which soaked the fine hair and stained the fur on the chest red. He listened with his ear to his heart, listening carefully.

"And the heartbeat! and the heartbeat. Old man Jiang touched the blood on the baby's face, and said with bitterness in his eyes: "Life is also a blessing." ”

The old man took the baby back to the house, wiped it with hot water, rewrapped the fur of the beast, replaced the wet black flannel cloth with a clean quilt, fed it some warm water, lit the fire, and the house was hot.

The temperature in late spring was by no means low, and Old Man Jiang was already sweating profusely, but for this baby, who didn't know how long he had been floating in the water, raising his body temperature was a must. The old man grabbed a dragon stream fish from the bucket and prepared to boil a bowl of fish soup.

Longxi fish grows in various large and small streams under the ambergris River, and it is rare in the turbulent river, but it wanders leisurely in the stream, with thin scales and large heads and fatty flesh.

The old man is good at water and understands fish, a knife from the belly of the fish gently slashed to the tail of the fish, and then from the tail of the fish to the head of the fish, against the scales to peel off one side of the skin, the other side is also torn off, the old man inserted the thin knife into the back of the fish, against the bone of the fish to cut off the fish, like jade translucent white fish meat slid into the boiling water.

Remove the tendons from the fish bones, remove the internal organs and dirt, wash them, put them in cold water, and then put them on the stove to boil. Old man Jiang picked up the boiled fish meat and grinded it into minced meat, mixed it with some tea and stirred it into a paste.

Old man Jiang picked up the baby and shook it gently to try to wake up, only to hear a sound, the baby opened his eyes, did not cry or make a fuss, just looked at the old man blankly. The old man smiled: "Good boy, your eyes are clear and bright, wait for grandpa to feed you something to make you refresh." ”

The old man picked up the spoon of tea, fish and minced meat into the baby's mouth, and the baby was chirping, obviously eating liquid food.

The old man shouted, if the child was still in the stage of only breastfeeding, the old man would be in trouble. The fish bone soup was almost boiled, and after eating the minced meat and drinking the fish bone soup, the baby smiled at the old man as if he was satisfied, and then squinted and fell asleep. The old man was stunned, being able to raise such a spiritual child can be said to be a gift from God to the old man Jiang who is alone.

It was moral without hesitation to save people before, but at this time, it was the old man's decision after deep thought, and he decided to raise the child himself, and wait for the child to understand before telling the origin.

Old man Jiang is in the forest on the southeast border of the Yuan Country, the Yuan Country is in the northernmost part of the Qianxing Continent, and further north is the vast ocean, the Yuan is the only place in the Qianxing Continent that is not connected to other countries by land, not that it is separated from other countries by big rivers, but it is necessary to cross the water when entering the surrounding countries, it may be separated by a large river or a small stream that can be crossed in one step.

The catastrophe lasted for three days, and on the way to the neighboring village to change dry food, the old man heard the traveler say that the waves in the North Sea were continuous, the waves were dozens of meters high, and they overflowed the villages and towns near the sea, not only flooded, but the fish monsters in the sea were swept ashore by the waves and injured many people, everyone fled to the south, and the river was also flowing backwards because of this wave.

The old man thought for a while, the red light in the south at that time should be a fire, to the south there is less water and more trees, and the air is dry, and the fire in the forest means that the beasts inside have fled to the plain. Recently, the Great Forest was first Liaoguo, and then Yuzhou, and these two countries should have suffered the same casualties as the flooded areas of Yuan, if not worse.

The skin of the child was a beast in a deep land and many forests, and it was not the area north of the abyss, which was the place where the water came from the south before it went against the current.

Starting from the southernmost Liaoguo, the Ambergris River flows into the Yuzhou Kingdom, the Yuanyin Kingdom, and the Yanxin Kingdom in the center of the continent, and finally flows through the Yuanguo to join the Beihai. Presumably, the parents accidentally fell their children into the river when they fled. From the perspective of time and distance, the child is very likely to come from Liaoguo or Yuzhou.

With children to take care of, Old Man Jiang's time can be said to be fleeting, and he doesn't care at all about the aftermath of natural disasters, but every time he goes to a crowded town, he can't stop the rumors from getting into his ears, and as time ferments, the rumors become more and more intense.

It can be determined that there is indeed a fire in the Qianya Great Forest, and the fire burns inland, and the people are good at hunting beasts in the mountains and forests of Liaoguo, so most of the villages except the central towns are near the forest, and the forest fires and wild beasts run wildly and naturally suffer heavy casualties.

Then came the wealthy Yuzhou country, which was surrounded by mountains and rivers before, because of the water reversal, Yuzhou, which is located in the highlands, was cut off, and people had no choice but to move north, and the people in the villages and towns near the forest in the south of Yuzhou who had no time to move were suffering from the lack of water due to fire.

Finally, there is the abyss, although the abyss country is not disturbed by fire, but the flood is serious, those flooded towns can no longer be saved, become the dwelling place of water creatures, the land area of the abyss country is lost by one-fifth at once.

Although the catastrophe lasted only three days, the resulting minor disasters lasted for several months. In the year 703 of Qianxing, all the disasters on the mainland have gone, and the follow-up treatment is almost over. According to the statistics of the number of people in the seven major countries of the Qianxing Continent, the number of people in Yanxin Kingdom does not seem to be much different from that of two years ago, the number of people in Xiyi, Shen, and Yuanyin countries is nine-tenths of that of two years ago, the number of people in Yuzhou and Yuanguo has decreased by one-third compared with two years ago, and the number of people in Liaoguo is only half of that of two years ago. It is highly likely that the child's family has passed away.

"Grandpa?" A pair of big sparkling eyes came to the old man Jiang, and a child about two years old climbed onto the old man's lap and looked at the old man.

"Ah, it's okay, grandpa is just thinking about something. ”

"Child, I'm hungry," the child pouted.

"Okay, good boy, grandpa is going to cook now, what do you want to eat?"

"Susu, and...... Fish soup"

“...... You like fish soup so much?"

"Hmm!" the child nodded sharply.

Old man Jiang laughed, reached out and touched the child's head. Old man Jiang bent down and pulled the child's hair, and the roots of the hair were slightly red.

"Grandpa, what's wrong?"

"It's fine. The old man rubbed the child's head. I thought: Sure enough, it's a fiery child, so there's no need to change the name.