The raft was relatively rudimentary and somewhat shallow, so we got on the raft and began to take turns at the helm, using the waterproof equipment bag as a stool to sit on.

This time, the rest of the trip can be predicted, and it will be full of crises, so everyone cherishes the tranquility at this moment. Jinjing sat on the bamboo raft, quietly looking at the cliff on the shore of the lake, there are also some vines on the cliff, growing lush and green, blooming with some scattered small flowers, her melon seed face looks extremely calm at the moment, I looked at it, a little distracted for a while, and the voices of many people flashed in my mind.

Of course, I don't have any special thoughts about Jinjing, she is younger than me, and she is a collateral line, she does not have the perverted lifespan of the direct family of the Zhang family, looking at her appearance, it should be about twenty-four or five, melon seed face, white skin, very shrewd when she is making trouble, and very quiet when she is not making trouble.

Back then, when A-Ning died, she was about this age, and if she was still alive now, she should be about to run to the third person.

There is a saying that describes it like this, a man has thirty-one flowers, and a woman has thirty tofu dregs. In fact, I really want to know what those young people who have died will be like when they are thirty years old, and now, I have reached the age of a flower, but the people in my memory are still the same as when they were young, whether it is the stuffy oil bottle or the people who are Na Aning.

For their memories, I only have a young face left in my mind, and even if I live to be seventy years old, when I recall the deceased, their faces are still young.

This is the sorrow of death.

The living can slowly experience birth, old age, sickness and death, while the dead can leave nothing, even in the memory of others, it will always be the same as when they died.

Just as he was sighing, Jinjing turned his head, picked up water and poured it on me, and said, "Hey, old man, don't keep staring at me." ”

I was suddenly unhappy, and my heart said that I am still a flower now, it is the most vigorous age of a man's life, how can he be called an old man? It hurt my self-esteem a bit, so I said, "So what kind of man do you say is not old?" Two or three years old? ”

Jin Jing blinked, pretending to be mysterious: "Well...... You have to be like our patriarch. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the fat man next to me suddenly choked and said, "I said sister, aren't you?" It's been a long time, do you like that little brother? After a pause, the fat man said: "I advise you to die, in private, according to my long-term research on the fat master, your patriarch belongs to the type that has no interest in women, and of course, there is no interest in men." Secondly, as far as the public is concerned, doesn't your Zhang family pay attention to bloodline? You are a sideline, and it is impossible for the two of you. ”

The fat man said bitterly, probably remembering the sad things of Yuncai Nazhuang, I thought it was quite strange, and said: "Sister Jin, you are only twenty-four or five this year, right?" You haven't met your patriarch, how do you know what kind of person he is? "To be honest, with the character of the stuffy oil bottle, I doubt that there is any woman in the world who can stand him.

According to my more than 30 years of experience with women, women are a very special creature, need to coax, need to listen to sweet words, if a woman with a stuffy oil bottle, within half a year, will definitely get divorced.

I said me, Jinjing said: "I don't know, but when I'm old, my husband is still young, isn't it good?" ”

The fat man unceremoniously said a bad word, "Then when you two walk on the road, people will think that you and your grandson are walking together." I listened to the more the two of them talked, the more unreliable they became, so I interrupted: "Okay, the life and death of the little brother are uncertain, and you are still making fun of him, is it too unrighteous." ”

In fact, all we said were nonsensical words, which had no practical meaning, probably because of the innate premonition of human beings, and they sensed that this trip was not good, so they all took the time to enjoy the relaxing atmosphere.

After I finished speaking, the fat man and Jinjing ignored me, and the two continued to open the stuffy oil bottle, and the fat man said: "The age of the little brother, the grandfather was more than enough back then, you will die of this heart, besides, do you know what he looks like?" If he has the same body of fat as me, do you like it too? ”

Jin Jing pursed his lips and said, "Don't worry, our direct genes have always been strictly controlled, and there will be no inferior products like you." ”

"Hey." The fat man hissed, and was just about to speak, when suddenly there was a soft sound on the quiet lake, as if something was slapping the water.

It was summer at the moment, the lake was hot and windless, and there was silence all around, so the sound almost immediately attracted all of our attention, only to see Heqing on another raft suddenly lie down, facing the bottom of the lake, as if he had found something, and his eyes were very strange.

I sighed in my heart, over the years, I have met a lot of monsters in the water, I said in my heart, don't say what moths are coming out again? So he hurriedly asked Heqing, "What's the matter, what is it?" ”

He Qing didn't say anything, looked at it for a long time, shook his head at us, and said, "There is a dark shadow under the water, but looking at the outline, it should be a big fish, and now it is diving again." ”

"Big fish?" The fat man said, "How big?" ”

He Qing has always been silent, did not answer the fat man's words, only frowned and looked at the bottom of the lake, after a while, turned around and whispered to Zhang Tangrui for a while, because it was facing away from us, and there was a certain distance between the rafts, so we couldn't see what the two were doing for a while.

Jinjing frowned, urging the river to hurry up. We had a total of four people on this raft, plus the equipment bags of me and the fat man, and as for the two horses, they were released directly on the spot, and if they could meet them when they came back, they would continue to ride, and if they could not meet them, they would walk.

The remaining raft is Heqing, Heming, and Zhang Tangrui, at this moment, these three people whispered together, and it suddenly seemed very strange, soon, our raft was very close to Zhang Tangrui's, Jinjing jumped over directly, and asked Zhang Tangrui: "Uncle Rui, what's wrong?" ”

Zhang Tangrui frowned and said, "I'm afraid there is something bad at the bottom of the lake, let's speed up and leave this place first." He said ambiguously, Jin Jing was not satisfied with this answer, so he went to ask Heqing, Heqing seemed to be a little embarrassed, and finally said: "It's a big fish, but the fish is ......" He paused, as if thinking of adjectives.

My heart moved, and I said, "Does it look like a human?" ”

Zhang Heqing suddenly showed a surprised expression, looked at me, and said, "How do you know?" ”

I couldn't help but smile bitterly, took a step back, pointed to the edge of their raft, and said, "See for yourself." Zhang Heqing and a few people looked in the direction of my finger, and suddenly gasped, and Jinjing was directly stunned.

Because at some point, on the edge of their raft, there was an extra pair of hands.

A pair of webbed, gray, scaly hands.

At this moment, the hands are climbing the raft of Zhang Tangrui and others, and the parts of the hands are all hidden under the raft, from my point of view, it is vaguely a human figure, and there is a huge fish tail.

The fat man said, "Fuck, mermaid!" Grab it and see if it's male or female! The fat man's words suddenly broke everyone's tense nerves, Jinjing was surprised at first, but she was a member of the Zhang family, there was no fear at all, as soon as the fat man's voice fell, she pulled out a dagger from her thigh and said, "I bet it's male." ”

As soon as her voice fell, a head burst out of the water.

I can't describe the scene in front of me, how to say it, it's like the shrimp soldiers and crab generals in the TV series suddenly came to reality. The head that emerges from the water resembles a fish's head, but it has flippers that resemble a human hand, so it feels weird.

As soon as that thing came out, all of us raised our vigilance, and the guns in our hands were loaded with brushes, but there was no panic, and those who could sit on these two rafts today were no longer ordinary people, and the Zhang family's family edification since childhood Needless to say, I and the fat man are also experienced in a hundred battles, although a big fish that looks like a human suddenly appeared, but there is nothing to be afraid of, no matter what kind of monster it is, it will be finished after a few shots.

It's just that what makes people feel unfortunate is that before the shadow of the trace is seen, such a thing suddenly appears, and I feel a little uncomfortable.

Just as I was about to shoot, Zhang Tangrui suddenly said, "Wait, don't move." ”

Jinjing Dagger Capital had already put on an attacking posture, and when he heard this, he turned his head suspiciously, looking at Zhang Tangrui, obviously asking him what was going on.

At this time, I saw Zhang Tangrui put down his gun, then opened the equipment bag on the bow of the boat, took out a bag of beef jerky from the equipment bag, and then tore it into strips and threw it into the lake.

The thing in the water, immediately retracted its hand and plunged into the lake to eat the jerky.

We were stunned when we watched this scene, and the fat man said: "Innocent, you pinch me, why does the fat man feel like a dream?" ”

I said, "Forget it, because I also suspect that I am dreaming." After a while, Zhang Tangrui finished feeding a bag of beef jerky, and then stared closely at the shadow in the lake, and then, a strange scene appeared, the shadow swam around the bamboo raft of Zhang Tangrui and others quickly, as if thanking, after swimming into the bottom of the lake, the lake was instantly calm.

Except for Zhang Tangrui, the rest of us looked at each other, all a little confused, the fat man immediately asked what was going on, Zhang Tangrui breathed a sigh of relief, his expression seemed to be a little happy, and said: "Speed up, get out of here first, this is a good sign." ”

A good sign?

I didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, and then Zhang Tangrui explained, he said: "This kind of thing, in fact, has been recorded in the ancient book "Harmony", its name is 'Shark', according to the current words, it should be an aquatic mammal, just like dolphins, it is said to only live in inaccessible waters. Because it resembles a human, it is known as a spiritual creature in the water, and it is recorded in the "Harmony" that this kind of thing is docile and fearful, and generally does not show up easily, and can predict good luck and evil according to it. ”

I have heard of "Harmony", which is a biography similar to "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", so Zhang Tangrui said this, which really added a bit of credibility, and then thought of the thing just now, it came quickly, went quickly, and there was no hurtful behavior, it seemed to be similar to what was described in the book, so I couldn't help asking: "Then you saw the good luck just now?" ”

Zhang Tangrui said with a smile: "This is something made up by the ancients, and the good luck is not credible, but the "Harmony" records that if the temperament changes greatly, it means that there will be accidents, but if it is docile and nostalgic, it is a good omen." ”

I immediately met and said, "So you just fed it with jerky?" "If he does this, if I were a 'squirrel', I guess I would not be able to get nostalgic.

Zhang Tangrui laughed and said, "The words of the biography are not credible, but since we met, why not try to be auspicious." "It seems that the auspicious omen of 'Basket' just now made Zhang Tangrui feel very good.

But for some reason, I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart, just like a nail, the appearance of the 'scap' was ugly, at first glance it looked very hideous, and I could be related to the sea monkeys, but it really had nothing to do with the auspicious omen, and when I thought about it, I felt panicked.

As the old saying goes, where weird things come from, there must be weird things.

Something like this suddenly popped up in the middle of the way, could it be that we will encounter something strange next?

This is not a good omen, this is simply a bad omen, I really don't know what the structure of the Zhang family's brain is, and they can still laugh. The fat man was disappointed and said, "It's feudal superstition again, Jin Meizi, it seems that our bet can't be won't be made." ”

The next road is calm, as if it really responds to the auspicious omen, near the evening, when the sunset is in the west mountain, there is a large area of burning clouds in the sky, the burning clouds in the past are also known as the unicorn spitting fire, also known as a good omen, standing on the raft to look at, the sky is covered with clouds, the color is like fire, the color is gradual, beautiful, we take the bamboo raft leisurely, as if not to play with life, but to a paradise to travel, for a while I can't help but think: is it possible that this trip is really a good omen?

Will we have smooth sailing?

If that's the case, then thank goodness for the sea monkeys and their relatives.