The woman who is called Erniang, although she has been in the dust for a long time, never thought that a ten-year-old boy would be able to do such an arrogant thing to her, she turned her eyes, looked at this unusual young man with raised eyebrows, and then, raised her hand and nodded her inexplicable forehead, and said: "You flower boy, you want to eat the old lady, grow up more." ”

Inexplicably let go of her hand, Erniang covered her mouth and left with a smile.

Not long after, the man who went out before put two fresh and fat river fish on the inexplicable table.

I sniffed it inexplicably, this fish is not bad.

Two pots of wine, with the charm of Erniang, giggled, filled the wine glass, and when the thick smell of rouge and vulgar powder dissipated, he inexplicably picked up the bamboo chopsticks on the table.

After a pot of wine, the noisy wharf gradually quieted down, and the fishermen in the bamboo hut also returned, and the dusk light covered the river, but it could not penetrate a dense maple forest.

In the maple forest, a hunchbacked and lame old man with a loose cane walked out, his unkempt white hair was covered by a dead wooden hairpin, and his shabby ragged clothes could not cover his dark and thin body, like a candle in the wind, and under his feet, he stepped on a pair of straw sandals with exposed toes. Muddy old eyes, no focus in the eyes, vertical and horizontal ravine-like wrinkles, can't hide the blue spots on the face. His hands trembled, and he barely held on to his loose staff, and walked forward with difficulty.

There was only half a bottle of wine left on the table, and the preserved egg was holding a new fish and eating it on the table.

The old man came to the outside of the tavern, and stood and lingered for a long time before moving inside.

"Go, go, go." In the back kitchen of the tavern, out came a bearded man with an apron, fat head and big ears, he held a kitchen knife in his hand, coaxed the old man out, Erniang sitting on the account table raised her head and stared coldly, the man who delivered the fish beat her back behind her, and no longer said flattering words that made this woman useful.

"Master, you can do it." The dilapidated old beggar got used to whispering like this.

"Fuck off." The man waved the shiny kitchen knife in his hand.

The old beggar raised his head, a trace of pride flashed in his eyes, he turned around and was about to leave, although the hunger in his belly made him unable to resist, but he did not want to be for this food again, and he would have been subjected to bad rumors, if it had been before, he would have broken his body into thousands of pieces, but he held back, just for a thought in his heart, and it was also the belief that supported his life until now.

"Old man, go slowly." Stopped him inexplicably, and then wiped out a piece of horseshoe silver from his waist, threw it away, and landed on the tent steadily, "This wine, the master invited." When I said this inexplicably, I had never been so crisp and crisp.

The old beggar saw at a glance that the young man should be a little monk, and he glanced at the man, who put down the knife in his hand and made way for him, and then he moved his steps, walked towards the inexplicable, and sat down on the inexplicable side.

"Shopkeeper, two more fish and two jugs of wine." Inexplicable.

The preserved egg squeaked, swallowed the meat in his mouth, and then stretched out his paws and made a three, constantly shaking in front of his inexplicable eyes.

Inexplicably, he patted its big head and said, "Come five."

"Don't go yet." Erniang wiped the heavy silver ingots he had never seen before with his sleeves, urging the man behind him. The man immediately agreed, and followed the bearded chef into the back kitchen.

Erniang took one step at a time, took a cat step, shook the peaks, held the wine, and put it on the table.

"Little boy," she picked up the flask and poured a full glass for the inexplicable, "the slave family is here to accompany you." After saying that, she sat down inexplicably, winking, leaning inexplicably, and not caring about the stench of the old beggar.

Pushed her away inexplicably, and said coldly: "The master wants to accompany this old man, and he can't take care of you." ”

Erniang glanced at the old beggar coldly, and walked away with interest.

The old beggar didn't care, he was hungry, picked up a fish casually, began to gobble it up, inexplicably stood up and poured him a glass of wine, he immediately poured it into his mouth, inexplicably filled another glass, and said, "Old man, eat slowly." ”

"Here comes the fish." The corner of the shopkeeper's mouth reached his ear, holding the steaming fish, put it on the inexplicable table, the preserved egg stretched out his claws, and just wanted to grab it, he was inexplicably slapped on the paw by a chopstick, retracted, and inexplicably clamped it and put it in an enamel bowl.

The wine was gone, and the fish on the table was also eaten by the old beggar with the preserved eggs, and the preserved eggs burped, and they patted their round bellies with satisfaction, and fell on the table, and the flying slave bird on the shoulders jumped on its belly, and the old beggar with a little red light was also full of wine and food.

"Shaoxia," the old man hesitated, as if he had something in his heart, but he didn't say anything, just thanked him, and got up to leave.

Inexplicably, he naturally noticed that he had an indescribable respect for this old man, and said, "Old man, do you have something to say?" ”

The old man was about to get up, and when he heard this, he sat down again, "Alas! He sighed, and then said: "Little Shaoxia, there are some things I want to ask you, but please don't worry too much about Shaoxia." "Old man, excuse me." Only then did the old man settle down, "May I ask the young man, but is he a Taoist of the Sword Sect?" "I pondered for a long time inexplicably, but I didn't answer." Don't think too much about it, Shaoxia, I'm already a powerless waster now, and I don't have the slightest threat to you. Inexplicably, he let go of his guard, frowned slightly and looked at the old man, and said, "How does the old man know?" The old beggar smiled bitterly and said, "I am from the Demon Gate. Inexplicably, he stood up suddenly, turned around, untied the sword, held the long sword in his hand, and stared at him coldly, "The little immortal family doesn't need to panic. The old man stood up and said. I don't have a trace of cultivation now, otherwise, where would I end up like this? "I believe it inexplicably, what if I don't believe it, if this old man is hostile to him, it is nothing more than fighting to the death, three glasses of confidant wine before his death is better than winding around Liangyin after death.

Inexplicably, he sat down, put the Qiushui Sword on the table casually, and said, "Shopkeeper, two more pots of wine." ”

Erniang said: "Boss, go quickly." ”

The glass was full of wine, and he inexplicably raised his glass and said, "Old man, please!" ”

The old beggar said, "Good! ”

Young and old drank it all.

"Old man, since you are a Taoist of the Demon Gate, how did you become like this?" Asked inexplicably, the old man smiled slightly: "It's not important anymore." "So, may I ask the old man's name?" "What my name is, it doesn't matter to you or me." "Is there something wrong with the old man living in the world?" "May I ask Xiaoyou, in the sect, do you know a person named Ying Tianchang?" "Uncle Ying?" "Where is he?" The old man asked eagerly, his fiery eyes waiting for an inexplicable answer. "What are you looking for him?" "Don't hide it from Xiaoyou, the old man's daughter, marry him." "You are?" "Xiaoyou knows?"

Of course, I know inexplicably, Ying Tianchang's love entanglement with Liu Ying and Aunt Feng Yao, although he doesn't know very well, but in the past, he still learned about the general situation from the rumors and rumors of many people in the sect, and also knew that Ying Tianchang and Liu Ying died together, maybe this is the best destination for the two, and he also guessed the identity of the old beggar in front of him from the words, but he couldn't guess why the dignified Demon Sect Master fell to this.

"He's dead." Inexplicable. "Dead? Can you elaborate on that? Evidently the old beggar was very concerned about this. Inexplicably, he told what he had heard, and inexplicably said that the old beggar was already in tears, and even lay on the table, choking uncontrollably, "I hurt them, I hurt them!" The old beggar pounded the table. The old man, the old man. I called him inexplicably, but I didn't know how to comfort him.

After a while, the old man raised his head, his cloudy eyes became resolute, he was leaving, he knew that there was not much life, before he died, he wanted to see his daughter, even if he could only cry and repent in front of her grave, hoe a few weeds and stones for her, it was also considered to be a father's last thing, but he didn't know if his body could support it, but even if he died, he should die on the road.

The old beggar stood up and said, "Thank you, little friend, the old man is leaving." ”

"Old man, where are you going?" Inexplicably asked.

"Go see my daughter." The old man picked up the wooden staff and moved two steps with difficulty.

"Old man," inexplicably took out three ingots of silver from the storage treasure bag, the silver was given by Feng Yao when he left, these mundane things, the sect is not lacking, and when the officials and nobles in the world ask for the sect, they all pull horses in a car. "You take these with you."

The old beggar glanced at him, nodded inexplicably, and then stuffed it into his hand, and the old man trembled his hand and stuffed it into his arms, and did not refuse, because he needed these. Inexplicably, he then took out a bottle of elixir and said, "This is an elixir for healing injuries, I have some with me, and the old man should also put it away, maybe it will help your body." The old man raised his hand and touched his inexplicable head, and said: "The grace of a meal, the old man has nothing to repay in this life, why does the young man have to donate generously for me, an old man in his old age?" "Just for righteousness and deep affection!" "Okay, old man take it." The old man took the pill into his arms. "But the most unhappy thing in the old man's life is to owe people a favor, little friend, this is the only thing left of the old man, please take it." The old man took out a dark green brocade bag embroidered with a black lotus flower from his arms, pulled it up inexplicably, and put it in his hand.

Looking down inexplicably, although the brocade bag was covered with dirt, the black lotus that could bloom was like glass on the brocade, shining brightly, and the pearls on the rope line were large and round.

Inexplicably, he didn't want to accept it, he didn't want to be mistaken by this old man for a person who coveted treasures.

The old man saw the hesitation in his inexplicable eyes, and hurriedly said: "Put it away, everything in it is useless to me in this life, and it may also be useless to you, but this is the only thing that the old man can repay, Xiaoyou will not bear to let an old man who is about to die go into the soil with a lifelong apology, in my life, there are enough people who owe it." ”

Inexplicably, he took the dark green bag in his arms.

"Little friend, the old man has taken his leave." After speaking, Liu Hao, the sect leader of the Demon Cloud Sect, who had become an old beggar, walked out with a wooden staff and a lameness.

On that day, he was kicked off the cliff by his junior brother Wu Tian, but he did not fall to his death, and survived by luck with the cultivation he had cultivated for more than ten years, but one of his legs was broken and injured his meridians. Even though he took all the healing pills, because he took the Blood Demon Pill and was seriously injured, he still left sequelae and went lame. He wanted to die there, to kill himself with his last strength, but when he thought of his daughter, he had a reason to live, he needed to atone for his sins, he wanted to see her, he wanted to tell her that it was his stubbornness that ruined her life.

He clutched his broken leg, couldn't move in the dense taiga, and ate all the Yuan Qi Pills, which only allowed him to survive for a month, but his body was much better, at least he was able to stand up.

He went out, and when he was hungry, he ate a few wild fruits, and plucked a few flowers and plants to satisfy his hunger, and when he was thirsty, he went to drink a few mouthfuls of water from the mountain stream.

He walked out of the Black Ridge Mountain Range, where the Demon Cloud Sect was entrenched, begging along the road, and it took three years for him to come here, and his destination was naturally the Purple Qi Sword Sect, because only there would be news of his daughter.

Inexplicably, looking at his back gradually moving away outside the restaurant, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.

"Boss," inexplicably came to the tavern, untying the wine gourd hanging from his waist, "fill me with the gourd." ”

The shopkeeper agreed to take it, lifted the fine wine grapes sealed with a red wine seal and poured it into the gourd, but the gourd was like a bottomless pit filled with dissatisfaction, let him pour it more than ten times, shaking it was still not full, he looked at the inexplicable curiously, and asked with his eyes, "Look at what I do, continue?" He smiled inexplicably.

"You are useless day and night, how did my mother marry you in the first place, let me come." Erniang rolled up her sleeves and pushed him away, snatched the wine gourd and put it on the ground, and then hugged the waist-thick wine jar with both arms and poured it towards the wine gourd on the ground.

Steady as Mount Tai, the fine water flows for a long time, and the best nine brewing has not dripped a drop, this mother-in-law seems to be a practitioner.

The twilight is deep, but the rushing river never stops, and tonight, the river under the sky is his destination. Inexplicably, holding the preserved eggs, he went to the river.

"Little boy, don't be in a hurry to leave." Erniang shook a white satin handkerchief and called.

Inexplicably turned around, Erniang walked a few steps and chased after her, "Little boy, you see it's getting late, you might as well stay here tonight for a night in the slave family, I have already instructed my man to let him clean up a room for you, although it is simple, but at least it can shelter you from the wind and rain." ”

Inexplicably waved his hand and thanked him, but did not agree, in the half a month of travel, he had never experienced what it was like to sleep on a boat, and tonight, he wanted to experience it. As for the reason, it is really because the fifteenth full moon tonight is extremely beautiful, and the brilliant galaxy in the sky is extremely beautiful.

The sky makes the quilt, the boat makes the bed and swings in the water, and the river pushes the waves. Three sips of wine, one sip of joy and one sip of sorrow, one sip of contemplation of hometown.

Lying on the rocking boat inexplicably, pillow wine jug, looking at the starry sky, listening to the sound of the river, he couldn't say how comfortable he was, and after a while, he fell asleep.