Wei Xiaofeng asked, "Then what is that legend?" Can you tell us? ”

The old man sighed lightly and said, "Oh, I haven't told this legend for more than ten years, but fortunately, I still remember a little." ”

Xiao Feng and the other four were sitting in a precarious position, urging the old man with curiosity and impatience.

The old man tapped his thigh with his fingers a few times, and said as he thought: "I remember that the last time I told this legend was to my grandson, (the four of them were full of black lines, and there was a burst of slander: Why did this sound so twisted?) He had just started school at the time, and one day he came to me and asked, 'Grandpa, grandpa, why is this lake called Lake of Pity?' ’。 How many years has it been? My grandson should be twenty-five or sixteen years old by now, right? It's about the same size as this young man (he pointed to Wu Yun). Hey, it's been a long time since he's come back to see me...... Ah, that's a long way off. ”

The old man sat up a little straighter, and began to tell the legend: "I heard this legend from my grandfather, and my grandfather heard it from my grandfather, my grandfather...... Ahem.,I really don't know what dynasty the story happened in.,It should be a little older than the story that this girl just told, right? At that time, there was a very beautiful girl in this small village by the lake, and her name was Xiao Lian. She is the dream lover of all the men in the village, and when she reaches the age when she can get married, all the men of marriageable age in the village go to her house to propose, but she refuses them one by one. Not to mention, this is the beginning, and the rest of the story comes to mind all at once. ”

The old man cleared his throat and continued: "After those men's proposals were rejected, some gave up, but some still did not give up. Also, you think, if you can take a fairy-like person as a wife in this life, how many lifetimes of blessing will it be? But Xiao Lian just doesn't look down on the men in the village, and she ignores the insistence of those men. But she's a good girl, and she never asks of those men. If you change a girl with a poor character, relying on the favor of so many men, she will put forward all kinds of unreasonable conditions to ask the men to achieve, but after reaching it, they will change the excuse and tell them that it is no fun, and in the end, those men will lose their wives and soldiers. Xiao Lian's parents are also enlightened, there are a few men who rely on the good relationship between the family and Xiao Lian's family, and want to talk about this family matter by moving her parents, but her parents insist that the daughter should make the decision on marriage matters, which is very rare in the past when paying attention to the orders of parents and matchmakers.

After two or three years like this, except for a few young people who did not believe in evil, the other men in the village were all dead to Xiao Pitian. Just when everyone in the village thought that Xiao Ren might never marry for the rest of her life, suddenly one day, when Xiao Ren returned to the village from the lake, she was accompanied by a man, saying that she had met by the lake and came from outside the mountain. It was a young man a few years older than Xiao Lian, dressed like a scholar in a cloth robe and long shirt, but his bearing on his body did not look like an ordinary person. At that time, the men in the village were either farming or fishing and hunting, and the atmosphere of the mountains and wilderness was very strong. As soon as the scholar entered the village, it was like a crane entering a chicken's coop. What do you mean by that idiom? ”

"Stand out from the crowd." Wu Yun reminded.

"Yes, yes, yes. The people in the village were very curious, why did such a weak scholar enter the mountains? The outsider told the villagers that his name was Zhao Xu, a feather next to the wooden character, a down-and-out scholar, who had studied hard for many years, and planned to become an official and be able to glorify his ancestors. But fraud was prevalent in the examination room, and there were many relationships outside the examination room, so he had no choice but to fall off the list, disheartened, and wanted to find an isolated place to live in seclusion to live his life. He came to the mountains by chance and found the lake, and was fascinated by its beauty. When he came to the lake, he happened to meet Xiao Lian and knew that her village was by the lake, so he asked Xiao Lian if he could live in the village. Xiao Lian couldn't make up her mind, so she took him back to the village and let the villagers decide. Some of the male villagers who had proposed to Xiao Lian strongly objected to the scholar staying in the village, and they felt that Zhao Xu's existence was a great threat to their pursuit of Xiao Lian. However, most of the villagers consider that they have no education all their lives, and the children born are destined to be uneducated, so they can only stay in the village for generations to farm and fish, and since this scholar wants to stay, it is just right to teach their children to read and write, and their children will be able to go out of the village to explore outside. In the end, the minority obeyed the majority, and the villagers agreed to let Zhao Xu stay in the village, and also helped him build a house, providing him with daily necessities, clothes and food, in exchange, Zhao Xu had to teach the villagers to read and write.

"Actually, you should all hear it, this scholar Zhao Xu wants to stay in the village because he has a crush on Xiao Lian. When the villagers helped him build a house, he pulled a bunch of feng shui things that the villagers couldn't understand, and built the house next to Xiao Lian's house. A few days after Zhao Xu settled down, he put tables, chairs and benches in the small courtyard fenced in front of his house to start teaching. The children in the village are driven by their parents to attend classes at the scholars' places during the day, and some villagers occasionally come to observe their studies after their daily work. If you want to talk about Xiao Pian, she also has a good impression of this handsome and elegant Zhao Xu, who is very different from the village, so when Zhao Xu was teaching, she didn't come to listen to the lecture once. Zhao Xu naturally also takes special care of Xiao Lian. This is different, like the man in the village who gives gifts to the girl he likes is either a picked wildflower or a squirrel, or a rabbit or squirrel caught on the mountain, while Zhao Xu writes a poem and an article for Xiao Lian from time to time. Xiao Ren always accepted such a gift with joy. Slowly, the two got closer and closer, and finally reached the point of talking about marriage.

However, the men in the village who had proposed marriage to Xiao Lian were all against this family business, and they did not want to see the fairy in their minds taken away by an outsider. They even surrounded Xiao Lian's house every day, just to prevent Zhao Xu and Xiao Lian from meeting. After a long time, Xiao Pian couldn't get angry, and one day he ran from his house to the lake, and those men and Zhao Xu also followed when they saw this. Little mercy ran to the edge of a cliff and stopped, you see, it is said to be this cliff. The old man pointed to the air in front of the boat, and a cliff about twenty meters high rose from the shore and protruded above the lake. The edge of the cliff is surrounded by a chain fence, and the cliff is full of tourists taking selfies with the lake as the background, and couples make up the majority of them.

"This is the Unsimmering Cliff, one of the six views of the Lake." Wu Yun explained to Wei Xiaofeng, "In the story that Aunt Yue told just now, the pair of hard-working mandarin ducks jumped into the lake from this cliff and died together, so they named this cliff after the unswerving to death. ”

Wei Xiaofeng briefly overlooked the cliff, and then refocused her attention on the old man in front of her, she was looking forward to the next development of the story.

After the old man raised the water cup he carried with him and drank a sip of water to moisten his throat, he continued: "Xiao Lian ran to the edge of the cliff and stopped, and then turned back to the villager and Zhao Xu who had mentioned her relatives and said: 'I am about to jump from this cliff into the lake, I can't swim, so I will definitely drown. If any of you truly love me, stand by my side and die with me now! The expression on her face was very resolute, those villagers stood in place, you look at me, I look at you, no one dared to go to Xiao Lian's side. At this time, Zhao Xu separated from the crowd, walked to Xiao Lian's side without hesitation, and said to her affectionately: "Xiao Lian, I love you, I am willing to jump into the lake with you." As long as I can be with you, death is nothing! After Zhao Xu said this, Xiao Lian cried at that time and threw herself into his arms. The villagers didn't expect this scholar to look weak, but he was so brave in front of the people he loved, and they were all moved by his behavior, and then thinking about their cowardice just now, they were no longer embarrassed to oppose the family affair between the scholar and Xiao Lian. Of course, some villagers suspected that Xiao Lian's sudden going to jump into the lake was something she and Zhao Xu had discussed before, in order not to let the people in the village stop their family affairs. But it doesn't matter, because the next day, Zhao Xu and Xiao Lian got married with the blessing of the whole village. ”

The story seems to be very satisfying at this point, but the four people who listened carefully knew that the story behind it must have taken a big turn, otherwise how could the old man describe it as miserable?

After the two got married, the days were harmonious and beautiful, Zhao Xu continued to be his teacher, and Xiao Lian washed and cooked for him. But the good times didn't last long, and one day a year later, Zhao Xu suddenly disappeared from the village. No one knew where he had gone, and he didn't leave a note or letter or anything. The people in the village speculated whether he had stumbled into the lake or strayed into the mountains and forests and got lost, so the whole village went to the lake to salvage and search for the mountains, and a month passed, and there was no shadow of Zhao Xu. In the past month, Xiao Lian washed her face with tears every day, and she was much haggard. Later, some people speculated whether Zhao Xu would go out of the mountain and return to his original hometown. So the village sent a few people out of the mountain to inquire about Zhao Xu's whereabouts in nearby towns. A few months later, the villagers returned, bringing back what they had heard. It turned out that this Zhao Xu was not the so-called down-and-out scholar at all, but the son of a prince on the edge of the town, and soon after he left the village and returned to his palace, he married a daughter of a powerful family.

After hearing the news, everyone in the village understood that Zhao Xu had deceived the whole village and Xiao Lian's feelings, and then he ruthlessly abandoned her and would never come back to her. Compared with the daughter of a powerful family outside, Xiao Lian, who was born in a small village between the mountains and wilderness, is not important at all in the heart of a prince's son. Xiao Lian's heart was completely broken, and on the night she learned the news, she burned all the poems and articles that Zhao Xu had given her before, dressed in the big red clothes she wore when she got married, and ran to the edge of the cliff where Zhao Xu said she was willing to die with her, jumped into the icy lake, and died miserably with resentment towards the negative man. ”