After the battle between Zhongshan and He Qingfeng, the master of Meiwu took Mo Feiyu back to Lanxi Lake to recuperate. My right arm and Hongying and I made an appointment to look for the flaming Jiao of Tianchi in Changbai Mountain, the colorful osmanthus fish of Chaohu Lake, the sandworm of Nanshan, and the tiger whip of Beihai, so we parted one by one. Because Chaohu Lake is the closest to Nanjing, we decided to catch the colorful osmanthus fish in Chaohu Lake first at the first stop, so we bought three fast horses and rushed all the way to the ancient city of Chaozhou to rest along Chaohu Lake. In winter, a stream of water vapor gradually rises from Chaohu Lake, the yellow grass by the lake sways in the wind, and the sparkling lake surface occasionally has small fish jumping up in the sun, breathing fresh air and bathing in the warm winter sun. Chaohu Lake is my hometown, and the closer I get to my hometown, the more excited I become. Before the person arrived, my heart was full of joy and I gradually remembered the song "Wangchao" that I wrote in a foreign land:

Chaohu Lake

An island in the eyes of a swallow in the moonlight of an exotic land

Hope nest

It's a song of swallow murmuring nostalgia

Chunshui has lost weight a few times

Nanyan has not yet returned home

The return of the swallows requires a guide

Maybe it's because you've missed the spring season

But the spring breeze knows

Angelica from Chaohu Lake is a traditional Chinese medicine

It is also an antidote to nostalgia

The spring breeze has been prepared for Nanyan

Chaohu Lake

The home in the hearts of the fish swimming in the sea of the Sifang River

Hope nest

It is the nostalgia of a swimming fish

The aquatic plants have changed their faces

The fish have not yet returned north

The memory of the swimming fish is only seven seconds

Perhaps they have forgotten the guidance of the shipping lane

But the fairway knows

Angelica from Chaohu Lake is a traditional Chinese medicine

It is also an antidote to nostalgia

The waterway is ready for swimming fish

"Brother Kyushu, I heard that this beautiful Chaohu Lake is your hometown. Hehehe...... I guess I would be excited to return to my hometown after many years of absence. The right arm laughed.

"When I left home and went back, my hometown voice has not changed, and my sideburns have declined. When the children don't know each other, they smile and ask where the guests are from. Hehehe...... The alliance leader smiled. My hometown is between the Lujiang River and Chaohu Lake, and the poetry country has long been ruined, so how can I talk about my home? I still have a trace of nostalgia for the mountains and rivers of this land, and the mountains and rivers on that side still vaguely appear in my dreams. I looked at the endless Chaohu Lake and smiled softly.

"Oh, the great poet has the mountains and rivers of his hometown in his dreams, but has he ever expressed the nostalgia in his heart?" said with a smile.

"Master, your song "Homesickness" is great, it should be written about your hometown. This song is not long, I still remember, I will recite it for you. Perched on my shoulder, he sang my song "Homesickness":

The fetal sound is germinating

My ears are already familiar with the Huangmei opera of my mother's blood and bones

A warm and soft stream

The carol will fragrance every morning of my life

Chase the playroom

My feet have already covered the backbone of my father's father in my hometown

Thick and solemn Cangshan

The majesty will roar in every splendor of my life

The end of the world

My hands have touched the frame of the Chinese painting of the blood of the motherland

China has a long history

The stars will shine in my hometown every night

When the sun is full

My periwinkle is full of nostalgia for Bona

A great man who has been famous for eternity

Changchun will be engraved in the myth of every extension in my historical records

"Wow! It is worthy of being a well-known Kyushu layman, "Homesickness" is not only written beautifully and leisurely, affectionately, but also heroic and magnificent, with an infinite vision! Great poet, can you accept apprentices? Teach me the mysterious skills of poetry!" Hongying gave a thumbs up and smiled.

"Master, on top, please accept the apprentice's worship!" said with a smile on his right arm.

"Hehehe...... Joked, when the situation is stable and the world is peaceful, I will teach these classical aesthetics again. In the past, there were also original poetry training classes, but unfortunately the war continued, and the people's minds changed, and there were few simple and quiet minds who could calm down and read, let alone let them write poems. I waved my hand and laughed.

"Yes, under the disaster of war, people are thinking about their own one-third of an acre. In the world, most of them are small people wearing masks of various colors and disturbing one after another. How many people still have the great beauty of the family and the country and the world in their hearts?" the right arm sighed, "However, Brother Kyushu, when I lead everyone to calm the demons in the rivers and lakes and return the world to peace, I will definitely fully support the poetry and beauty industry, so that * is truly bathed in the warm poetry of harmony." Come, let's give a high-five!"

"Thank you for your kindness!Okay, high-five!" I laughed, holding out my hand and right arm to give me a high-five.

"And me!" said Hongying, pulling the reins, riding over, and high-fived me.

"And me, and me......" The fire flew in front of me, flapping its wings in my hands, and flapping its flamingo wings with its whiskers outstretched.

"Hahaha......" Everyone talked and laughed all the way, and before they knew it, they had walked to the ancient city of Chaozhou. We found an inn to rest, ate in the inn restaurant on the first floor, and ordered the famous Chaohu eight bowls in the ancient city of Chaozhou: whitebait steamed eggs, loach noodles, green pepper white rice shrimp, steamed white fish, Suwan skin balls, Chaonan pounded meat, Zhongcong small pot soup, Huailin fish, steamed hairy crab, steamed lake fish, farmhouse salted pork, chestnut chicken, noodle fish tofu, Japanese cabbage, Chaohu braised vegetables, Sixi balls. After a table of sixteen dishes was served, it was full, and the right arm and the red tassel were taken aback.

"Wow, that's so much? Isn't it eight bowls? hehehehe...... Wouldn't it be a bit extravagant!" Hongying said with a smile as she moved her chopsticks.

"Hahaha...... Chaohu Eight Bowls is a branch of Hui cuisine, the first time you come, I will let everyone try it. We people in Jiangnan pay more attention to the mouth, okay? In any case, the guests at the waterside feast prepare a bowl of lake fresh. Please!" I used my chopsticks to order a round of steaming white fish, steamed hairy crab, and steamed lake squid.

"Hehehe...... Great poet, then you're welcome!" Hongying said, and began to eat, her love of food was exposed.

"Hehehe...... My typical foodie girl has more than every year!" said with a smile on his right arm, holding the fish in his right arm, and he raised his wine glass to me, and we drank it all in one gulp, smiling happily.

"Every year, every year......" Huo'er pecked with interest at the steamed lake squid that was caught in his right arm on his plate.

"Reunion, we will always be together!" "Youyou rolled up the Sixi balls on the plate with fish whiskers, and ate them while playing, like an ignorant child.

While eating, I heard a table next door talking with a frightened expression:

"Have you heard, more than a dozen people from the Li Mansion and the Lu Mansion have died violently in the past few months, and the death is ......?"

"Isn't it, Master Li also ascended to heaven yesterday, and he was also convulsed all over his body and foaming at the mouth......"

"I heard that the servants of the two families said that they were poisoned to death by eating fish in Chaohu Lake, and they didn't know what kind of poison they did for an autopsy?

"It's a sin, it's still offended the little white dragon, you shouldn't eat it! Retribution is coming, retribution is ......"

"It must be that the little white dragon who was plagued by the Li family and the Lu family came to take revenge. ”

"Yes, the little white dragon in the nest state back then was resentful......

They were startled and ate with relish, and I sat at the next table and listened, so they finished their meal and paid the bill.

By the time we finished eating, the people in the inn and restaurant had all gone one after another, and we all felt our stomachs and lay quietly and smiled comfortably under the warm light, and we hadn't had such a big meal for a long time.

"Great poet, your Chaohu Eight Bowls are really good, I haven't held it up like this for a long time!Hiccup...... I love Chaohu Lake...... Hiccup......" Red Tassel chuckled, hiccuping.

"Huh...... It's nice to have friends from afar!If you like it, just play here for a few more days!" I smiled proudly, as a person who has been wandering for many years and traveled through many time and space, it is indeed a beautiful thing to be proud of to have friends like the hometown where I was born.

I walked to the counter to check out, and asked curiously: "Shopkeeper, what's going on in this Trap Prefecture? Why are those people rumoring that the dead people in the Li Mansion and the Lu Mansion are related to the Trap Nest Prefecture?"

"Guest, listen to the accent, you are not locals! Come! Come! Come! Listen to me tell you in detail. After the shopkeeper finished collecting the money, he brought a bench and sat down at the table with me, and told the story of this "nested state".

One year, the little white dragon, the son of the Dragon King of the East China Sea, came to the ancient city of Chaozhou to play, because he had too much fun, maybe he was tired of playing, and the little white dragon fell asleep and fell asleep. The people of Chaozhou found a big fish incarnated by a little white dragon lying on the street, and they couldn't help but smack their lips again and again. Master Mo ordered Lu San, the butcher of the Yamen, to chop up the big fish and share it with the people, and those who saw it had a share. The big fish on the street were divided and eaten alive by the officials and people of Chaozhou, and the remaining pile of fish bones was also seen by Li Er, who sold tofu, and picked up and ate a meal of fish bone stewed tofu. There is a family surnamed Jiao in Yingxian Lane in the west of the city, and they also share a share of fish and meat, and Jiao's grandmother is waiting for her wife Jiao's father to return from relatives, and she is ready to taste the "big fish soup" with her family, and she has not yet eaten it. At night, the Dragon King of the East China Sea gave a dream to Jiao's grandmother, Jiao's father, and Jiao'er: Old man, I am the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and the big fish on Chaozhou Street was originally a stand-in for my son Little White Dragon. Because Aiko is young and ignorant, he forgets to return, sleeps, becomes an arowana, and is stranded and trapped. Now he has been cut by the wicked people of Chaozhou with thousands of knives and swallowed his stomach. Heaven has mercy, a piece of the fish of your Jiao family is still there, I have come to beg you not to eat the fish, and I pray that you will raise this fish and meat in pure water, and my little white dragon will be resurrected in three days. I promise that your Jiao family will have good retribution in the future! Jiao's grandmother, Jiao's father, and Jiao'er have the same dream in the same bed, and there must be a reason. According to the dragon king of the East Sea in her dream, Grandma Jiao put the fish meat into the water purification basin and rested up. Three days later, the three of them followed the prestige to see that the piece of fish had already turned into a small fish that was jumping around. In an instant, the little fish turned into a little white dragon with the stirred waves, and with a long groan, it flew into the air. The three members of the Jiao family were pleasantly surprised when they saw this scene. At night, the three members of the Jiao family had the same dream again. A white-clothed scholar who called himself Little White Dragon walked into the gate of Jiao's house, bowed down to thank the Jiao family's great kindness for saving his life, and angrily reprimanded the wicked people of Chaozhou for cooking his corpse, determined to fall into Chaozhou and take revenge. Xiao Bailong told the Jiao family that when the eyes of the stone lions on both sides of the Chaozhou Mansion turned red, it was the day of the trapping of Chaozhou, and at that time, you should leave quickly to avoid the disaster. If you leak the secrets, you will be punished in the same way. The little white dragon was furious and angrily left to go. The three members of the Jiao family woke up and discussed countermeasures. Grandma Jiao thought about it, as the saying goes, the dragon's heart is the most poisonous, and we must guard against it! Grandma Jiao told Jiao'er to go to the door of the mansion every day to see if the stone lion's eyes had turned red. Later, the three members of the Jiao family took turns to patrol, day and night, and did not dare to stop. Seven seven forty-nine days, the eyes of the state capital stone lion still did not change, and the abnormal actions of the three Jiao family aroused the confusion of the butcher Lu San. Under Lu San's questioning, Jiao Er said the dream in fright, Lu San said that the Jiao family were all fools, crazy, and didn't believe it at all; Lu San decided to play a prank to scare the Jiao family, and in the early morning, carrying a bucket of fresh pig blood, sneaked up in front of the stone lions of the mansion, and smeared the pig blood little by little into the eye sockets of the two stone lions at the entrance of the mansion, and left with a burst of joy. Mortals don't know that this immortal also needs the help of mortal hands to manifest his spirit. When Grandma Jiao came to the gate of the mansion and saw that the stone lion's eyes were full of blood, and the blood was still flowing down drop by drop, she knew that the prophecy had come true. Grandma Jiao hurriedly returned home, woke up the sleeping Jiao's father, took Jiao'er, and hurriedly ran to tell each other: Trapped in Chaozhou, trapped in Chaozhou! Jiao's father even ran away from his shoes in a hurry, and he didn't have time to pick them up. The people of Chaozhou fled in a panic, Lu San bumped into Li Er, who was carrying a burden to sell tofu, was also running, and after learning the situation, he laughed at Li Er for being stupid, Lu San said that he should live forever after eating dragon meat, and kicked over Li Er's tofu bucket. The little white dragon who drove the clouds and mist showed his magical powers, and cast a spell to turn the trickle of water splashed out of Li Er's tofu bucket into a monstrous wave, and the panicked government master Mo Yi, Li Er, and Lu San were swept into the waves in an instant and buried in the belly of the fish. The people of Chaozhou and the Jiao family were also drowned in the tide, and Jiao'er drowned because of her young age. Seeing that Chaozhou was crumbling, Jiao Mama was in pain and regretted saving the little white dragon, and said before she died: How innocent are the people of Chaozhou, who suffered from this catastrophe? The little white dragon saw his benefactor suffering together from the clouds, and felt pity, and exerted his divine power to turn Jiao's grandmother into a basking mountain, Jiao'er into a mountain, and Jiao's father's shoes into a shoe mountain. The people who were killed in Chaozhou saw the three mountains rising from the ground and the water rising high, so they flocked up and climbed the mountain to avoid difficulties. By three o'clock in the afternoon, Chaozhou had completely fallen. This is the story of the "Nest State".

I held my chin in my hands and listened with relish, and I was so engrossed that I didn't know when my right arm and red tassel would go upstairs to rest. Even Yoyo next to the table began to snore, and a string of fish bubbles popped out of his mouth.

"No, shopkeeper, what is the connection between this Trapping Prefecture and the death of the Li Mansion and the Lu Mansion?" I was surprised after hearing this story.

The shopkeeper ran to close the door of the inn, leaned over and whispered: "Guest, haven't you understood? Xiao Bailong, the son of the Dragon King of the East China Sea, was eaten and boiled by the three wicked people Mo Yi, Li Er, and Lu San. Within a year of the year before last, more than 50 members of the Mo family were all killed, all of them died, some died of fish poisoning, some crossed rivers and lakes and capsized boats and drowned, and some sat in a carriage across the arch bridge, and the bridge immediately collapsed and died...... The cause of all deaths is unknown, but all are related to water. A fisherman saw that Master Mo and the little lady were jumping up and swallowed by a colorful fish when they were boating in Chaohu Lake, and the fisherman disappeared on the vast water surface of Chaohu Lake in a few days. Is it a coincidence that the Mo family suffered a bizarre annihilation, followed by the Li family and the Lu family, and then the Li family and the Lu family were murdered one after another? This is clearly the anger of Long Yan and the eradication of the grass!"

"Shopkeeper, isn't that little white dragon resurrected? and revenge?" I wondered.

"Alas, guest officer, as the saying goes, the dragon's heart is the most poisonous, and revenge is for three generations! The shopkeeper opened his arms, spread his palms, and shook his head.

"Shopkeeper, could it be that there is a demon in Chaohu Lake? Isn't it that a fisherman saw that Master Mo and the little lady were jumping up in the air and swallowing it when they were boating in Chaohu Lake, how do you explain this colorful big fish?"

The shopkeeper drank it all, looked up at the fish lanterns hanging in the inn and said: "Guest officer, you look at these fish lanterns, now every household is hanging, because the Lantern Festival is coming, our Chaozhou Lantern Festival has gradually entered, the locals love to throw colored balls, play lions, play dragon lanterns, put lotus lanterns, Chaozhou ancient city lights such as the Milky Way, charming dreams, tourists are weaving, wine shops, teahouses, brothels have bursting, attracting the people of Sanjiang, Guests from all over the world gather in Chaozhou, the noisy gongs and drums are not in the ears, and the dragon and lion dances are walking through the streets and alleys, which makes people linger and forget to return, so lively!"

I slowly waved the wine glass in my hand with a slight drunkenness and smiled: "The sky and the earth are big, or my Dachao Lake is the most beautiful......!"

"Guest officer, after you finish listening, just last year, when everyone was putting lotus lanterns by the lake, a colorful fish jumped up from Chaohu Lake, it was as big as three tables!" said the shopkeeper, measuring the table with open arms and gesturing.

"Oh, and then?" I grinned, holding my chin. I thought to myself, "Presumably, this colorful fish is a goblin, and it is very likely to be the colorful osmanthus fish we are looking for this time." ”

And ......," the shopkeeper said, and brought me into that memory.

The colorful big fish stepped on a row of lotus lanterns, shook two long and big fish whiskers and slapped the surface of the lake and said angrily: "You Chaozhou people have been doing evil for a long time, the crime is monstrous, and you will never be able to repent. In the future, you will select ten beauties to pay tribute to me during the Lantern Festival every year, and put them on a bamboo raft to pay tribute to me, and I will ensure that the wind and rain in Chaozhou are smooth, and there will be more than one year after another! Otherwise, the people of Chaozhou will all die like the Mo family! The cycle of cause and effect will be unpleasant!"

As soon as everyone heard that the tragedy of the Mo family that left the door was caused by this big fish, they were all so frightened that their faces turned pale and they were frightened, and they knelt down one after another, and a group of squires led and shouted: "The lake fairy spares his life! The lake fairy spares his life! We will do it! We will do it!"

"I'm not a lake immortal, I'm the heart of Chaohu Lake! I am the fish bone of your Chaozhou ancestors who boiled the little white dragon back then, because I absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon for thousands of years, and with the immortal energy, a fish bone finally turned into an immortal. Yes...... Whenever a hot summer day or a warm current hits, every cell of mine is flooded with memories in the tumbling fish soup!hahaha...... Otherwise, Chaozhou City will be flooded, and no one will be spared!"

"Hmph! What is the heart of Chaohu?! This is a fish spirit who makes waves, and he is also a lustful goblin, and he is embarrassed to get involved with some little white dragon and Guanyin Bodhisattva! Nonsense!" I slapped the table and shouted, "Let him be rampant! Wait for me to collect him tomorrow!"

"Master, what's wrong?!!!" Yoyo shouted, and Yoyo, who was awakened by me, immediately flew up and looked around with two fish whiskers.

"It's okay, it's okay......" I touched the fishtail that was swinging from side to side.

"Strong man, are you serious? I saw a few strong men today and knew that a few of them were not mortals. The shopkeeper looked at me in amazement, looked at me again and smiled: "It would be great to have a strong man to help......!

"Just what?" I wondered.

"Alas...... It's just that some of the mages and Taoist masters who we invited by the Chaozhou squires before were swallowed by the big fish when they set up an altar by the lake, and only spit out one bone. The shopkeeper sighed.

"Hahaha...... Those Taoist leaders are all fakes!" I patted the shopkeeper on the shoulder and laughed, "Yoyo, we're sleepy when we go up." ”

"Guest officer, tomorrow is the day to pay tribute to the heart of Chaohu!" said the shopkeeper eagerly.

"Don't worry, there's me!" I said with my back to the second floor of the shopkeeper's upper inn and shook my hand.