When the third old man Gao said this, with a cool breeze blowing, raindrops fell 'plop plop'. I stood up and looked around, only to see a straw hut in the distance to the south.

"Uncle, it's raining, let's go there and take shelter." I pointed to the hut.

The old man nodded resignedly, and Xiang Feng and I helped him to the shed. There are a lot of melon seedlings scattered in the bare field behind the shed, and it seems that there should be a melon field before the autumn harvest, and this shed is used to take care of the melon field.

We sat on an old wooden bed in the shed and rested for a while, each smoking a cigarette. Outside, the weather is getting more and more cloudy, and the rain can't stop dripping, and the smoke and rain are everywhere.

"Uncle, let's go on, Political Commissar Xu remembered an incident he experienced when he was a child, what was it?" I asked.

"It's a bit of a long story." Gao Laosan said.

"It's okay, we have time, you can slowly reminisce..."

The words of the third old man have solved many mysteries that have been haunting us for a long time. It's just that this old man's talk is a bit muddy and rambling, and the first words don't match the afterword, and the logic is messy. Originally, the old man didn't have much education, and he was not an eyewitness, so all of the above was told to him when his father was alive. As for the above words, they were all sorted out by me based on the dictation of the third old man at that time. After so many years, the old man has a hard time recalling, and under my guidance, some details have to be thought about for a long time. If I had changed my previous temper, I would have been impatient for a long time, and now, the longer I have studied the Qimen Method, the stronger my patience and patience will be.

Besides, there are still many things that need to fall on Gao Laosan at the moment, such as the origin of the thing in the reservoir, and the whereabouts of Uncle Yang at the moment, and so on. We can only listen to the old man's temperament slowly.

Xiang Feng handed the old man another cigarette, and after lighting it, the old man slowly took a few puffs and began to speak quietly. Listening to the sound of the rain outside, the old man told us a story that was almost like chatting...

The old man said that his father, Xu Xiangqian, was born into a poor family in Qingshi Township, and the family's livelihood depended on Xu Xiangqian's father to fish in the Yellow River and ferry on a raft. When he was very young, Xu Xiangqian heard the old man in the town tell him a legend, saying that when Dayu controlled the water, he suppressed the river god in the river in the area of Qingshi Town. Therefore, Xu Xiangqian always pestered his father to take him to the ferry, because he wanted to find the place where the legendary suppression of the river god was and see what the river god was like.

As a result, the river god was not found, but Xu Xiangqian was swept into the Yellow River by the wind and waves the next day, fortunately his father had good water quality, otherwise Xu Xiangqian would have been washed away by the water. Since then, his father has resolutely refused to let Xu Xiangqian go to the ferry with him. But Xu Xiangqian did not give up, and often secretly ran to the river beach alone at night, kneeling down and praying against the Yellow River, hoping to let him meet the legendary river god.

I don't remember from which year, but the Yellow River would stop flowing for a period of time every year, and the riverbed would dry out. For the Xu family, who rely on ferries and fishing for a living, the interruption of the Yellow River is tantamount to God forcing them to a dead end. Every time the Yellow River is cut off, the family has to tighten their belts and live a life where they have eaten the last meal and no next. However, in the eyes of the young Xu Xiangqian, the interruption of the Yellow River was a good opportunity given to him by God to find the river god.

The child was like a demon, enduring hunger, and with a small shovel, he dug up and down the river in search of the river god. On this day, Xu Xiangqian walked about four or five miles west along the river, and saw that it was getting dark and it was raining, so he walked back.

There is a lot of cement on the riverbed of the Yellow River, which is hard and slippery when it is rained. Along the way, Xu Xiangqian fell a lot, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he was dizzy from hunger, and finally couldn't walk. He fell into the riverbed and fell asleep. I don't know how long it took, Xu Xiangqian was woken up by the rain, and when he opened his eyes, the sky was already completely dark, and the rain was pouring down more than once, and the rain gathered into streams of water on the riverbed, wide or narrow, and it looked like a silver ribbon in the dark, clear and bright.

Xu Xiangqian was drenched in the rain, he struggled to get up, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly saw a white thing in the river in the distance. Xu Xiangqian was very strange, he said in his heart, could it be the legendary river god? Xu Xiangqian was excited and nervous, he mustered up the courage to walk towards the thing, and when he came to it, he realized that it was not a river god at all, but a fox.

There have been various legends about fox fairies in Qingshi Town, and it is said that after the river god was suppressed by Dayu in the river, he sent a nine-tailed fox to guard it. Many people have seen foxes in the old forest outside Qingshi Town, and Xu Xiangqian has also seen them, so it is not uncommon for him to see foxes. Although it was strange for the fox in front of him to appear in the river, it looked ordinary, and it only had one tail, and it was not the legendary nine-tailed fox, Xu Xiangqian didn't think deeply...

The fox looked as if it was wounded and dying. Xu Xiangqian carried it back to the town and hid it in a haystack not far from his home. After returning home, Xu Xiangqian was reprimanded by his father, and he didn't dare to tell his father about the fox. Xu Xiangqian's mother felt sorry for the child, and saw that he fell with injuries everywhere, so she slaughtered the only old hen in the family the next day and stewed a small pot of soup for Xu Xiangqian. Xu Xiangqian left a small half, secretly took it out of the house, and fed it to the fox.

Since then, Xu Xiangqian has saved part of his own food every day to feed the fox. Under Xu Xiangqian's care, the fox got better day by day. The next day, Xu Xiangqian's family did not have enough food to eat, so he tearfully carried the fox to the river beach, and reluctantly watched the fox walk into the river and disappear from sight...

After the grain was eaten, Xu Xiangqian followed his parents to dig wild vegetables in the mountains every day to eat. Later, even the wild vegetables were almost gone. Seeing that his parents were hungry and thinner day by day, Xu Xiangqian decided to go out of the town to beg for food, he thought to himself, he was young, maybe others would see him pitiful, and would give him some leftovers, and bring them back to his parents to eat when the time came.

Early the next morning, Xu Xiangqian got up from the bed and prepared to beg for food. However, as soon as the door opened, Xu Xiangqian saw a big fish weighing several catties lying at the door. At first, he thought he had seen the flowers, squatted down and touched it with his hand, it was indeed a fish. Xu Xiangqian happily woke up his parents. For three days in a row, every morning when Xu Xiangqian got up, he would see a fish lying at the door of his house. Xu Xiangqian is still young after all, he thinks that God has mercy on them, and the fish fell from the sky. Xu Xiangqian's father thought that the fish was stolen by his son from someone else's fish pond, threw it at the door, and lied that it fell from the sky, so he beat his son, saying that although we are poor, we must have backbone, and we would rather starve to death than steal.

That night, Xu Xiangqian cried aggrievedly in the quilt until midnight, and when he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly saw that something seemed to be shining outside. He got up and looked through the broken window paper, only to see that there was a heavy fog in the yard at some point, and there was a faint humanoid thing in the mist, which flickered and flew, and flew to the door of the room where his parents lived, and then got into the crack of the door... Then, Xu Xiangqian didn't know anything.

Woken up by his father early the next morning, Xu Xiangqian found himself somehow sleeping on his stomach at the window. The father hugged Xu Xiangqian, crying, and asked him if he had saved a fox some time ago, and Xu Xiangqian nodded stunned. The father said that the fox that Xu Xiangqian saved was a fox fairy, and last night, the fox fairy gave him a dream and told him the ins and outs, saying that he was wrong to blame Xu Xiangqian, and those fish were brought up from the Yellow River by the fox fairy in order to repay Xu Xiangqian. The fox fairy said that those fish were the descendants of the river god, and they were protected by the river god and hid in the river...

I won't blink when I listen to it, Xiang Feng is usually so cool, and I was stunned to listen, and my mouth was slightly open.

"In this way, the reason why Commissar Xu thought of going to the dry river to find fish was because of this past when he was a child?" It took me a while to come back to my senses and ask the old man.

"Well, yes," the old man nodded.

What the fuck, is there really a fox fairy in this world? … I looked at the wind.

"Then who, this handsome boy, do you still have a cigarette?" Gao Laosan asked with a trembling hand towards the wind.

Xiang Feng smiled, took out one casually, and threw it to him, "Uncle, I have a question." ”

"What?" The old man lit a cigarette.

"I want to know, where did Political Commissar Xu's Yin and Yang Five Elements technique come from." Xiang Feng said.

The old man said that it was more than two years after the fox fairy helped Xu Xiangqian's family survive the famine. On this day, Xu Xiangqian's father was seriously ill and took a lot of medicine to no avail. Seeing that people were dying, Xu Xiangqian thought of the fox fairy he had saved, so he ran to the fox fairy temple, hoping that the fox fairy would appear again and save his father. Two days passed, the fox fairy did not appear, and on the third night, Xu Xiangqian fell asleep leaning on the offering table. In a daze, he saw a woman standing at the temple gate with her back to him, slowly waving to him, so he followed the woman out. Along the way, the woman didn't say a word, Xu Xiangqian quickened his pace, wanting to go over the woman and see what she looked like, but no matter how fast he walked, the woman was always more than two meters in front of him.

He followed the woman all the way to the Yellow River, and when he came to a place on the riverbank, the woman suddenly disappeared. Then, Xu Xiangqian woke up, and he thought that it must be the fox fairy who gave him a dream and showed him a way to save his father. Coming to the place where the woman had disappeared in his dream, he dug down about two meters deep and unearthed a rusty box containing a pill. In addition, there is a turtle shell, which is engraved with dense text. After feeding the pill to my father, my father's illness was cured. Later, Xu Xiangqian cracked some of the text engraved on the turtle shell, and now it is something like the Five Elements Technique...

By the time the old man had spoken, it was getting dark. This past about the fox fairy, Xiang Feng and I will be suspicious.

"Okay, uncle, next, please tell us what method Commissar Xu used to find those fish blessed by the river god in the Yellow River." I said.

The old man was just about to start speaking, and I suddenly seemed to hear Wei Niuniu's voice. I hurriedly waved my hand at the old man and listened carefully, it was indeed Wei Niuniu's voice...

"Little Master... Little Master... Where are you..."

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