Qi Jing also squatted down, rummaging through them with Qin Xun, comparing the size of these fish.

Qin Xun grabbed the tail of the fish that he finally caught from the mouth of the basket, carried it upside down and shook it in front of his eyes, and talked to Guzhou: "Sir, why don't you go to the ferry for fishing?" There is a fish market, the fishing is fast, the fish are still big, and the good ones are almost all fished out, and the rest of them are not very good. ”

Xunshui Ferry is not actually an organized fishing ground, the anglers there are not fishermen who rely on fishing and selling fish to support their families, more are idle and have nothing to do, three or five friends get together to go to the boat to drink a little wine and talk about the day fishing and fishing, by the way, put it on the edge of the ferry to sell, everyone agrees to prohibit net fishing, each fishing their own, trying to have fun. Today you come, tomorrow they come, there is no shortage of fishers and sellers in that area, and there are many stalls selling other things for the convenience of boat travelers, and over time a stable little market has been formed. It is said that it is a small market, and people who live far away do not go to that place to buy fish, they have their own closer vegetable market to go, and they prefer to go there more people near the ferry, and sometimes they don't want to go to the basket and can directly call the angler to catch a few and buy it, so that a living thing is fresh.

"People don't like it." Gu Zhou said lightly and poured wine into his mouth.

Not long after the fish that Qin Xun was carrying in his hand was caught, he was still fluttering and struggling very vigorously, and was shaken by Qin Xun a few times, and suddenly slammed it to break free from his hand, and his tail splashed a few drops of water onto his and Qi Jing's faces, which made Qin Xun shrink in shock.

Qi Jing's eyes were quick, and he quickly reached out to catch the fish that fell to the ground, looked at the size, and threw it into the basket where the small fish were placed. Because he was worried that the fish would move again, he grabbed the fish with one hand and protected it in front of Qin Xun with the other hand, and after throwing the fish back, he naturally wiped the splashed water droplets on his face with the clean back of the hand that protected him, and then used the back of his hand to wipe the water droplets on his face, and said: "Don't touch it, some of these wild fish are quite fierce, you don't have any experience in distinguishing them, don't accidentally hurt them, let me come." ”

Qin Xun stopped as he said, put the back of his hand on the skin that he had just touched on his face, smiled and bent his eyes, got up and went to the river to wash his hands.

Gu Zhou mocked: "You can't even get a fish, you are very delicate." ”

Qin Xun was neither angry nor embarrassed, he turned his head and replied with a smile: "It's a little coquettish, so Mr. is smiling." Glancing at the wine gourd in his hand, out of the instinct of a doctor, he said, "Since Mr. is injured, it is better not to drink excessively, even if it is an old injury, it should not be underestimated." ”

"Eventful." Gu Zhou didn't appreciate it in his mouth, but he unconsciously shook the wine gourd twice in his hand and put it down, "I can't distinguish the species, don't you know what fish you eat when you eat fish?" ”

"Almost, I only recognize crucian carp." Qin Xun shook the water droplets on his hand, "But I don't like to eat crucian carp, well, it's not that I don't like to eat it, I just don't like to pick the thorns, I don't know what species I eat fish, I only eat less thorns." ”

Gu Zhou snorted, probably thinking that he was delicate again.

Seeing that he was still holding his hands, Guzhou called him again, "Don't be idle, there is a hoe in that basket, go dig up some reed roots." ”

Qin Xun's eyes lit up, he went to the bamboo basket and took out the short-handled hoe that was larger than a shovel, and weighed it a few times in his hand, as if he was a little surprised: "Mr. actually digs reed roots to eat?" ”

"Sometimes when the wine is finished and tasteless, I will make a few smacks." Guzhou watched him dig the reed roots skillfully, "Yo, it's good to do this." ”

Qi Jing looked up when he heard this, and said with a smile: "So when I think about it, there are also small patches of reeds on the edge of the lake in your villa, so you shouldn't have gone there to dig up reed roots, right?" ”

"Not really, often." Qin Xun quickly picked and dug a small handful, took the reed roots and hoes to the water's edge, first washed the hoe and put it back in the bamboo basket, and then changed the clean water area to carefully clean the reed roots, and said with a smile, "Anyway, I look at the medical book every day to identify medicinal materials and have nothing to do, idle and boring, when the season comes, I will go to the lake to dig a bunch, wash it and take it to the martial arts training field to distribute it to the same door, they like it." Let me tell you, the reed root is also particular, too tender is not sweet, too old can not chew, not old and not tender is just right, sweet silky, no need to spit slag, better than sugarcane in the summer. I often pick the best ones and leave them for those good-looking female disciples. ”

"Really? Then I think those female disciples are very fond of you. Qi Jing had already picked up the fish and went to the water's edge to wash his hands.

"Haha, no, they don't particularly like me, at most they like me. The senior brother said that I looked too much like a girl, and the real girl's family didn't like men who were more beautiful than themselves. Qin Xun washed a handful of reed roots, and the roots were white and fat, he picked out one of them and handed it to Qi Jing's mouth, "Taste it?" Believe me, this iron is sweet! ”

"I don't have to, go to Sir."

Qin Xun narrowed his eyes: "You won't be a cleanliness habit, right, I see that this water is still quite clean, give you a poison?" He bit the end of the reed, pursed his lips and said, "Ah, that's right, it's really sweet, you see I've eaten it all, don't be so disgusted, taste it?" As he spoke, he handed the one he had bitten back to Qi Jing's mouth.

Qi Jing looked at him, didn't refuse, and gently grabbed the head he had just bitten, sucking, it was really a cool sweetness.

Qin Xun looked happy, took one in his mouth, and gave the rest to Guzhou.

Gu Zhou didn't say anything about his unkind behavior, didn't care about the question of "why did you ask you to eat the two of you who dug it for me first", took the handful of reed roots, and said to Qin Xun while chewing: "People don't want to taste it because they dislike it, but it's good for you to give back what you have eaten." ”

Qin Xun smiled with a reed root in his mouth: "Mr. doesn't know, his cleanliness is very weird, originally he didn't like it clean, I gave it to him after I ate a bite, but he didn't dislike it, don't you say it's weird?" ”

Qi Jing's face was a little red, don't look over his head a little, lowered his eyes to look at the white and tender reed root in his hand for a moment, put it in his mouth and sucked it, and laughed softly.

Gu Zhou snorted coldly, noncommittal to his flamboyant words, put a handful of reed roots into his pocket, and went to check the fish that Qi Jing had selected, the three largest were in one basket, and the remaining five or six were in the other basket. Gu Zhou pondered for a moment, and swapped one of the three with a fish of a different species from the smaller fish pile, Qin Xun didn't pay attention, Qi Jing looked at it.

Qin Xun was still teasing Qi Jing at the water's edge and asked him if it was sweet, and he made a fuss about stuffing the reed root in his hand into his mouth again, and suddenly heard the sound of a heavy object entering the water a few times in his ears, and when he turned his head, he saw that the lonely boat was carrying the fish basket containing five or six small fish, and all of them fell back into the river.

"Sir, this is?" Qin Xun couldn't help but be surprised.

"Those who slipped away from that part of the ferry were either clever or lucky, and these little things escaped from death and didn't know how to cherish them, so they bit up at the bait and gave them a long memory." The lonely boat slapped twice on the bottom of the upside-down basket to make sure that all the fish in it had been poured back into the river, and then he carried the basket back and stacked the empty basket under the basket containing three fish.

"Isn't it useless to spend so much time catching fish and finally putting them back?"

"There's no need, there's no need to kill them all. If you don't release them, they will be damaged, and they will be of little use to me, so it is better to accumulate some virtue, leave a glimmer of room for doing things, and get the fun of fishing and recreation, and you should be content. ”

"Sir, this is a good argument, so to speak......" Qin Xun pointed to the fish basket containing three fish, "Then don't you let this one go together?" ”

Gu Zhou glanced at him, half of his face covered with burn marks was facing him, and the scars were also squeezed and deformed with the action of grinning and sneering, which was a little terrifying: "It's not a good theory, it's just a foot theory, what you say behind you is standing and talking without backache, how can you do useless work, I have been fishing here for most of the day, after all, it is for the sake of hunger, and I will not return empty-handed, right?" The small fish bite the bait is ignorant and greedy, and the big fish is stupid and sent to death, and it deserves to be filled in the stomach of people. ”

With that, he took out a reed root from his pocket and put it in his mouth, parted the wine gourd to his waist, picked up the two baskets of bamboo baskets stacked together in one hand, and carried the fishing rod on his shoulder with the other.

"Goodbye, sir." Qi Jing bowed to his departing back.

When the back of the lonely boat did not enter the reeds, Qin Xun asked: "How about Qi Jing, I didn't deliberately try to please him, do you think I like him?" ”

"Probably begging." Qi Jing smiled and rubbed the top of his head a few times, "Go back, it's too late to catch up with the meal." ”

"Rush to eat? Where to eat? ”

Qi Jing pointed in the direction where Lone Boat left: "Didn't you see Mr. just change fish?" It's not that you don't like to pick thorns, but he will change it for you, for our dinner, you can't pay more attention to it and think about it, and take care of playing tricks. ”

"Ha, you said goodbye, that's what you mean, I thought you were polite. But since we went to my husband's house to eat, shouldn't we go with him? ”

"Sir, I have my own way home, you and I will go back the same way, and pick something to take with us at the market. Visiting the door, empty-handed is not like talking. ”

The two of them walked back to the north, the sky was already dusk, the sunset sank into the top of the mountain and disappeared, only the clouds on the horizon provided the last light of the day, and the river was covered with a thin layer of moisture, and even the air became damp and cold.

Qin Xun took a deep breath of the slightly watery air, and didn't forget to ask the question he cared about the most: "He calls you by his name, what is his identity?" ”

"Huh? I thought you could guess it, he was ...... The scars, so obvious. ”

"Burns?" Qin Xun frowned, "I don't remember if I've heard of people with burns, and it's that serious." ”

"Think again."

Qin Xun searched hard in his mind for the important people related to him, and his eyes widened in disbelief, "How come!" No...... Right? ”

Qi Jing knew what he was thinking with great tacit understanding, and hummed softly, acquiescing to his guess.

Incredible.

Rao is Qin Xun often thinks wildly, this time he couldn't help but be shocked, slowed down, he looked down at Qi Jing's clothes, and saw the gold thread embroidery swaying with him walking under the afterglow and reflecting the light of Wen Ze from time to time, Qin Xun smiled bitterly without any taste: "Qi Jing, you can't help but think too highly of me, if you don't intentionally remind me, I really won't put a dead person who died before I was born and never met in my mind." ”

"There are always things in this world that we don't expect, Ah Xun, you still don't dare to think enough." Qi Jing chuckled.

The place under their feet, Pingzhou, Jiangnan, which is not big or small, can still be called rich, should be Mr. Guzhou's fiefdom.

In other words, it is the fief of King Qi Ge, who died twenty years ago.