Gu Junyang lay on the shore and rested for a long time before he sat up lazily, because it was so comfortable to lie on the pebbles and bask in the sun. He raised his arms to block out the sun, squinted at the sun through his fingers, and then took out his compass to make his way.

"Alas, there is no way, people are handsome, and God favors them... It's fortunately morning, and if it's night, I'm afraid I'll have to play in the wild to survive. ”

He looked across the river, across the cliffs, with a waterfall cascading down in the distance, and egrets flying in the air from time to time. The south bank is relatively flat, with some hills and dense forests.

"Well, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, a good place!" Gu Junyang praised again and again.

"Since there is river water, it should not be the boundary of Wu County, and there is only water where there is... Could it be Takixun? No, Takixun is in the west! Teleported in the water? Ignore all this, we have to find a populated place to solve the problem of food and lodging. ”

Gu Junyang found a branch and wanted to dry his clothes. The knife he wore on his body didn't know where to throw it away, so he could only summon Xuan Er and use it to chop branches. When I was about to go back, I suddenly heard some rustling sounds in the woods on the left, and walked over carefully, picked up the leaves, and saw a pheasant foraging. Hehe, Gu Junyang smiled at that time, licked his lips, rubbed his hands, tiptoed close to the pheasant, and caught it with a brisk step. Gu Junyang didn't do a lot of stealing chickens and touching dogs when he was a child, so this kind of thing was easy for him to hunt.

"Well, yes, I know that my son is hungry for meat, so I'm going to catch up with my son to make up for me, it's really a good chicken. ”

After finishing speaking, he began to pluck the hair, divided it by two and cleaned it up directly, and set up a shelf by the river to roast it.

"It seems that the next time you go out, you have to bring some salt, it will affect the taste too much. ”

Gu Junyang was nibbling on the chicken leg while reflecting on himself. After eating and drinking, Gu Junyang walked east along the river.

After about half an hour of walking, I finally saw a few farmhouses. He pushed the door open and walked into a yard with smoke from the chimney, where an old woman was cooking on a fire. Gu Junyang knocked on the door, and after seeing the old woman turn around and see herself, she said respectfully: "Auntie, I came here to travel, I never wanted to get lost, look, can I stay here tonight?"

The old woman looked Gu Junyang up and down, wiped her hands on her apron, and said, "It's a tourist again?" It's strange, why do you always come here to travel recently! It's okay for you to live, but my conditions here are not very good, I'm afraid you won't be used to it." ”

Gu Junyang nodded again and again and thanked him, "It's okay, auntie, I'm used to living there! Auntie, there are always people who have been traveling here recently?"

"Yes, I said that I wanted to enter some mountain from here, but there was a lake to the west, but it was a dead end, except that the cliff was a cliff. And I never saw them come back!" The old woman shook her head.

"Ao, that means that you have beautiful lakes and mountains here, and the scenery is beautiful and attractive, auntie. Nowadays, people are tired of the hustle and bustle of the city and prefer a clean place. Gu Junyang changed the subject.

"Kid, there's only potatoes to eat tonight, it's in the middle of nowhere, there's nothing special, you can take care of it. The old woman warmly brought a plate of baked potatoes and a large bowl of wild vegetable soup.

Gu Junyang was not hungry at all at this time, but it was difficult to resist his kindness, so he still ate two potatoes and drank half a bowl of wild vegetable soup.

At this moment, he heard the creak of the door opening in the courtyard. Then I heard the old woman say anxiously: "Doudou, why hasn't our big reed flower come back with you yet?"

At this time, a little girl ran in panting, her face was red, her face was full of tears, and she cried and said: "I put Huahua in the mountains this morning and disappeared, I thought I lost it, so I looked for it everywhere." Finally, by the river at the west end, I saw a place of chicken feathers and a pile of bones. ”

Gu Junyang almost vomited the soup as he listened to it, and thought to himself, "No, is it so coincidental? The pheasant I eat is raised by this family?!"

At this time, the old woman also cried: "This chicken thief, and still pointed to it to lay eggs and sell them in the city for money, two males and one female, not a mother's steal, how can our grandparents and grandchildren live in the future!" The old lady scolded while crying.

Gu Junyang was so embarrassed that he felt uncomfortable when he heard it, and scratched his hair. I didn't know how to comfort her, so I could only walk over, take out my wallet and hand it to the old woman.

"Auntie, otherwise, I'll buy that chicken. Gu Junyang looked guilty.

"How can I ask for your money, blame that immoral chicken thief. After saying that, he began to wipe his tears again.

When Gu Junyang saw it, he was about to start scolding again, and hurriedly stuffed his wallet into his pocket.

"Good, take it, brother, I am a rich second generation, and my family has endless money. ”

Looking at the money, and looking at the old woman longingly, seeing that grandma shook her head, she reluctantly stuffed her wallet back, "Big brother, give it back to you, grandma won't let me accept it." Doudou looked at Gu Junyang with tears in his eyes.

For the first time in his life, Gu Junyang felt the taste of regret for doing something wrong, so he had to take his wallet back.

At night, the old woman spun thread in the house by the dim light. Gu Junyang sat on the threshold and chatted with Doudou: "Doudou, where can I make a phone call around here?"

Doudou is chopping sweet potatoes and hay and keeping them for the morning to feed the chickens. He lowered his head and said, "In the city, about an hour's walk east from here, there is a small shop that can call." ”

"Oh... Hey, Doudou, how old are you?"

Doudou glanced at Gu Junyang, and immediately bowed his head and replied, "Six years old." ”

"That's the age to go to school!"

"I can't afford it, but I'm almost saving enough, my grandmother spins yarn every day, and I pick some mushrooms from the woods every day while herding chickens and selling them. At the mention of chickens, the little girl's expression darkened again.

Gu Junyang felt guilty for a while, grinned at the girl reluctantly, and said, "Doudou, you take this phone number, put it away, I live in Mengyue, if there is anything in the future, just come to me." ”

"Is anything okay?" Doudou's big eyes immediately brightened, wiped his hands, and excitedly took the note with the number written on it.

"Okay. Gu Junyang smiled dotingly and scraped his nose.

"Then will I marry you when I grow up?" Doudou was obviously looking forward to the answer.

"Huh?!" Gu Junyang was surprised by her precociousness.

Doudou put his hands on his cheeks, "Wow, big brother, your eyes are so good-looking, can you do it?"

Gu Junyang coughed dryly twice, pretending to think, and then pouted, "Uh...... It depends on how well you do in your studies. ”

"Really? Okay, big brother, you have to wait for me. Doudou said seriously.

"Alright, little princess, it's so late, go to bed. ”

At night, Gu Junyang lay on the bed, and involuntarily remembered what happened in the Lethe River Stream.

"I remember that there was a record in ancient books that thousands of years ago, there was a swordsmanship wizard in the Xia family in Xidu, whose name was Yi, and his name was Qiye. It's a pity that in the end, he and the entire clan quietly disappeared into the world. ”

Gu Junyang looked at the bright moon in the sky, and after a long time, he whispered to himself: "Then is it you? My past life, Xia Qiye!"