Walking on the road, Hu Luobin saw Fan Hu touching his head, which was still a little painful, and Liu Kanyin was bandaged because of the injury in front of him. He proposed: "There is a small island near here, called Penglang Island, where the scenery is beautiful and the climate is pleasant, which is very suitable for you to recuperate. ”

Without waiting for Liu Kan to speak, Fan Hu changed his sluggish appearance and said excitedly: "I'm going." Seeing that Liu Kan didn't speak, he put his arm on Liu Kan's shoulder and coughed: "Look at me, I'm seriously injured now, and it's difficult to even speak." You need to find a good place to recuperate. And it also adds to our experience, don't you think?"

Unable to resist Fan Hu, Liu Kan asked Hu Luobin, "Then how should we get to that island." ”

Hearing this, Fan Hu looked disdainful: "Have you had your brain eaten by a pig?" ”

Liu Kan turned around and glanced at Fan Hu threateningly, and Fan Hu immediately changed his words: "I'm a pig, I'm a pig." When he saw Liu Kan turn around, Fan Hu added: "I'm a pig, so you don't have a brain." After saying that, he ran away, and Liu Kan chased after him. During the chase, the two attract the attention of passers-by and startle the couple who have a tryst in the woods on the side.

Looking at the two people running, Hu Luobin shouted loudly behind him: "Come back, you guys are running in the wrong direction." ”

Finally, as the sun was about to set, the three of them finally came to a pier. After finding the boatman and asking, the three of them boarded the boat.

Fan Hu stood at the bow of the boat, watching the infinitely beautiful sunset and feeling the coolness brought by the river breeze. The green silk dances, and the white robe flutters. It looks very ethereal and dust-free. I just wanted to learn from those writers to recite a poem. I heard the sound of Liu Kan and Hu Luobin laughing behind him. Feeling the ridicule from behind, Fan Hu turned away, but he didn't know what they were laughing at. The boatman kindly pointed to his white coat. I saw two obvious footprints on the back of the white coat. Thinking of what happened in the afternoon, Fan Hu immediately understood, and complained to Liu Kan, "It's all because of you." Liu Kan responded calmly: "I'm just teaching you to respect teachers." ”

Night gradually fell, and the three people in the cabin felt a little cold, at this time Hu Luobin took out a bottle of wine from his baggage, asked the boatman for three large porcelain bowls, poured them full, handed them to Fan Hu and Liu Kan, and said, "If you drink this, you won't be cold." ”

Took the porcelain bowl, it was different from usual, Liu Kan drank it in one gulp, wiped the wine left on the corner of his mouth and said loudly: "Happy!" Seeing Liu Kan like this, Fan Hu felt strange: "Brother Kan, I remember that when my aunt invited us to dinner yesterday, you didn't take a sip of the wine on the table." Liu Kan didn't explain, just poured a porcelain bowl full of wine and handed it to Fan Hu: "Good things, you can also take a sip." Fan Hu picked up the porcelain bowl and drank it in one gulp. Because it was the first time to drink, he was grabbed by the pungency of the wine, which caused Liu Kan to laugh: "Come, keep drinking." ”

As more wine went down, the three gradually became acquainted, and the conversation box gradually opened. Fan Hu first asked Hu Luobin: "Ordinary people are scared when they know that there are demons, but you are not afraid, but you are very excited, why is this?"

Hu Luobin put down the wine bowl and said, "When I was a child, my mother was busy with business, and I was usually home alone. Since I am very introverted, I don't play with the children next to me. At that time, when I was bored, I could only watch the sky in the courtyard. One day, as usual, lying in the courtyard. I heard the sound of ping-pong coming from the stove house. I walked in and ran into a child younger than me. He was stealing pastries. When we looked at each other, the child looked a little panicked because he was caught stealing the pastry. He looked at me timidly, and secretly wiped the rice crumbs from his mouth with his hand, looking a little pitiful. Seeing the child's pitiful expression, I boldly walked up and handed him a rice cake. He hesitated to take it, took a bite, smiled happily, and danced with his hands. And broke a piece of rice cake and handed it to me. Because his mouth was stuffed with food, he said vaguely: "You eat it too, it's delicious." And just like that, I became friends with him. Then we frolicked in the courtyard, and when the sun went down, he left telling me that his name was Zashiki Boy, and that he was a demon. I wasn't scared of that at the time. I was just excited to finally make a friend. When my mother came back in the evening, I proudly told my mother that I had met a friend. My mother was very happy to hear this, so she asked me who my friend was. I told her it was a demon called a fairy. When my mother heard this, she didn't believe it, but smiled at me and said, "Silly boy, you're talking about the name of your game character." There are no demons in this world. "On the second day, I waited for the boy in the stove house we had agreed upon, because the boy was really greedy. When he was very happy eating rice cakes, I seriously asked him if he was really a demon, and the boy was very solemn, so that he put down the rice cakes in his hand and swore that he was really a demon. I was so proud that I had made a friend who at the time seemed to me to be an almighty mother who didn't even know existed. With that, Hu Luobin stopped and took a sip of wine. After he drank the wine with difficulty, he continued: "It's just that one day after that, the neighbor asked the Taoist priest to do it, and I didn't see the boy all day. But because my mother was rarely with me that day, I didn't pay much attention to it. When the neighbor was leaving after the service, I suddenly heard the boy's cry. I ran out, but was stopped by my mother. I told my mother that I heard my friend's cry, but she didn't believe it and said she didn't hear anything. So in my loud noise, I could only hear the boy's cry getting quieter and quieter. My mother thought I was hallucinating and called a doctor to treat me. The doctor told my mother that I was hallucinating because I had been alone for a long time and longed for company. My mother also felt guilty that she cared too little about me, so she put down her job to take care of me. Although my mother accompanied me, when I was alone, I would always secretly go to the stove house to confirm whether the pastries had decreased, but every time I went, I was disappointed, and the greedy figure never appeared again. And so it went on for a few years, and I grew up. I also think that the original boy was a hallucination that appeared when I was lonely. Until I met you, I knew that the boy really existed. So I came out to see if I could find the boy again. ”

After Hu Luobin finished speaking, Fan Hu sighed with emotion, and noticed that Liu Kan kept drinking by himself, Fan Hu suddenly thought of the gray memory in Liu Kan's heart: "Brother Kan, when I followed the tapir into your mind, I saw a gray memory. It was the shattering of that gray memory that caused me to fall into a coma, what is that memory?"

Liu Kan was silent, and just drank the cup of forgetfulness in front of him alone. Seeing that Liu Kan ignored himself, Fan Hu didn't give up, and asked again: "Brother Kan, I have seen it, that beautiful woman." ”

Hearing Fan Hu's words, the porcelain bowl that had reached his lips stopped, and he drank it again and again. He closed his eyes with drunkenness, and his face was full of happiness with memories: "The girl's name is Hu Qiuzi." Gentle and lovely. When I was injured as a child, I drifted down the stream, and it was Akiko who fished me out of the lake and pulled me back from the edge of death. When I woke up and saw her for the first time, I liked her for the first time. Talking to her, I learned that she was an orphan. So I had a reason to stay. During the day, when I ploughed the fields, she would mend my clothes, and at night, we would sit in front of the door and look up at the stars, blowing the cool breeze, and the days were very pleasant. Later, the teacher approached me and said that I had the talent to become an onmyoji and wanted me to study in the academy. In order to be able to take better care of Akiko, I agreed. Speaking of this, Liu Kan took a big sip of a bowl of wine, but this sip, choked out a few tears. "I should have noticed it earlier. In the academy, the teachers were very strict with me, and I could only go back to visit Qiuzi during the Spring Festival every year. But during that Spring Festival, when I went back, Akiko was gone. I inquired with my neighbors and found out that Akiko had fallen ill and had passed away. Akiko had been coughing since I was leaving, and I thought it was just an ordinary wind chill, so I didn't care. As he spoke, he fell into self-blame. Liu Kan is like a child, a little helpless. Fan Hu patted Liu Kan's back and whispered comfort.

After a while, Liu Kancai continued: "After that, I have been staying in front of Qiuzi's tomb and drinking all day long. Maybe seeing that I haven't been back to the academy for a long time, the teacher came, saw me living such a decadent life, and scolded me severely. But I ignored it, and I could only rely on alcohol to numb myself. In the end, the teacher chose to seal my memory. It's just that this memory is so easy to forget, and it wants to break through that seal whenever it has the chance. So when you were in my mind, it took the initiative to crash into your sword, and when the seal broke, it repelled everyone due to the teacher's strength and emotional burst. ”

After listening to what Liu Kan said, Fan Hu felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart, and the sadness was all congested, and he wanted to find someone to talk to. didn't hide it, and revealed the story in his heart to the two. Everyone sighed when they heard this.

Fan Hu raised the porcelain bowl and said, "Today, everyone has told the secret of their hearts, since it is so speculative, it is better to become brothers with different surnames." ”

The three of them thought about it, with Liu Kan being the oldest, Fan Hu second, and Hu Luobin the youngest.

The three of them knelt on the bow of the boat, each holding a bowl of wine in both hands, and said in unison under the witness of the surging river: "Today the three of us are brothers of the opposite sex, and I do not seek to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but to die on the same day of the same month." After speaking, he drank the wine in his hand. They stood up and looked at each other and smiled, then hugged each other tightly.

That's it. On the surface of the river where the bright moon hangs in the sky, there is a small boat with two green lanterns on it, and three teenagers drink four jars of liquor and talk about the five lakes and six tours, and after seven or eight points of drunkenness, they dream of nine days and ten earths.