"Do you know how to play cards?"

The man who opened the door was short and small, seemed to be younger than himself, holding a card in his hand, poked his head out of the door and looked Nandao up and down, his eyes should be focused on his black umbrella and the wine jug around his waist, looked at it twice, and before Nandao could say what he meant, he asked this sentence.

Nanjima glanced inside through the open door, and saw a circle of people sitting in the porter, playing mahjong around a table with a stove.

He shook his head, and the door slammed shut.

When I knocked on the door again, no one came to open it, only the sound of pushing the cards inside.

Nanjima angrily rubbed the mud on the steps of their doorway and left.

I just walked about ten meters, and then walked back and picked up a locust branch to pry the mud off.

After all, I'm here to ask for help, so I always have to keep my voice down.

Nandao calmed down for a while and knocked on the door again, but still no one responded, Nandao took a deep breath and stepped the mud back on.

Then he sat on the other side of the river, sighing and looking at it for a long time.

This is the city of Nanyi in the spring of 103 years.

This Nanyi City, which is named after a certain generation of cliff owners of Mojian Cliff and located in the southernmost part of Huai'an, has never been a peaceful place, as the ancient city that guards the only main road from ancient Huangliang to ancient Huai'an, I don't know how many wars started here in history.

There is a very wide garden in the north city of Nanyi City, which was originally a prosperous place in the market, thousands of years ago after a generation of four disciples of the East China Sea Mojian Cliff went down the mountain and entered the city, he created a sword sect in the market, and practiced the way of the sword in the noise of the world.

The name of the Sword Sect is called the Human Sword Sect, which may mean coming from the human world and going to the human world.

Coming for the world, it is natural to appear in the most prosperous place in the world.

It should be quite lively by now - the shouting of cards can still be heard.

Nandao sat on the riverside guardrail with an umbrella, thinking about what happened to Fang Cai.

"Don't you don't know how to play mahjong and won't let you in?"

The South Island was puzzled

He is not from Nanyi City, but from a small town called Nanke Town ten miles away, and the reason why he appears here is actually very simple.

Because he was dying.

Maybe ten years, maybe five years, maybe tomorrow.

His life was not very good since he was born, for some unknown reason, he couldn't see the rain and snow, and he couldn't see the sky, so his father, who had been fighting iron all his life, gave him a black umbrella and lived under the umbrella all day long.

When he was five years old, a man in the town who did not leave his name gave his father a peach blossom and asked him to take it back and plant it, and after the flowers bloomed, he drank some peach blossom wine every day to transfer the pain to the peach tree.

After the peach blossoms bloomed, it was indeed as the man said, Nandao lived very well and happily for ten years.

Until the peach tree began to wither, even if Nandao held an umbrella all day long, his body became weaker and weaker.

I heard from the people in the town that there is a peach tree that has been open for more than a thousand years in Nanyi City, and it is in the Human Sword Sect.

So Nandao came to Nanyi City for that glimmer of hope.

It's just that this weird Sword Sect directly sent him a closed door.

The spring rain in early March is falling, and the cruise ships in the river cross the bridge in twos and threes, with a boy holding an umbrella and standing at the head of the boat, and a woman holding the piano and sitting at the tail of the boat. The streets on both sides of the river bank are intricate, and the green locusts along the streets are sprouting green buds, and pedestrians are hurrying by.

Nandao sat with an umbrella, looked at it for a long time, seemed a little sleepy, took off the wine jug from his waist and drank a sip of self-brewed peach blossom wine, but when he put down the wine jug, he noticed a bright red on the spout.

Nandao raised his hand and touched the corner of his mouth, and his fingers were also stained with some red.

"You, you won't have a few years to live!"

Nandao laughed self-deprecatingly and raised his hand to wipe away the blood.

When Nandao drank most of the pot of wine, a small canopy boat floated in the river, and stopped on the bank of the river, and a rag hung outside the canopy, on which was written 'Life from south to north, and where in heaven and earth is not the world', these words are quite neat, but at the very end there is a crooked and incorrect sentence "rats and rats, I love money the most".

When the boat came to a standstill, a thin girl wearing an old felt hat and a rag coat came out, stood at the bow of the boat and stretched, and then pulled out a broken umbrella from a pile of miscellaneous items on the side, sat down on the bow with the umbrella, looked at Nandao with a smile, and did not speak.

Nandao looked at her strangely, not knowing what she was trying to do.

After a while, the girl smiled and said, "If the mouse is not wrong, you should be a little distressed." ”

Nandao took a sip of wine, sighed and said, "Yes." ”

"Rat, rat, I like to help others the most, don't look at rat, rat, I'm not very old, but I've been drifting on the Nanyi River for many years, maybe I can help you?" The girl looked at Nandao with her cheeks back, still smiling.

"Help me?" Nandao glanced at the girl, a little didn't understand what she meant, but the people in Nanyi City were more enthusiastic, shook their heads with a smile, and said, "I don't think you can do it." ”

The girl was not annoyed after being denied, tilted her head to look at Chunyu, blinked her eyes and said, "I see that you have been sitting outside the Sword Sect Garden all morning, is it possible that you want to enter the Sword Sect to learn swords?" I admit that this is indeed a bit difficult, after all, this is one of the three major sword sects in the world, but it is not difficult for me. ”

Listening to the girl's confident tone, Nandao raised her eyebrows and said, "What if it's harder than this?" ”

When the girl heard this, she seemed to be interested, sat down in a different position, stretched out her little hand and made a gesture of please.

Nandao took a sip of wine and said, "I need to go in and get a peach blossom, whether it's borrowing or stealing, if you can't grab it, you can run away." ”

The girl laughed out loud when she heard Nandao's whimsical words, and said, "I suspect you're crazy, and you actually want to go there and grab things hahaha......"

Nandao just looked at her quietly, so the girl sat down solemnly and said, "So what are you going to do with the peach blossoms?" ”

Nan Dao looked up at the hazy sky cut by the black umbrella, and said seriously: "Because I may be about to die, and the peach blossoms in the Sword Sect may be able to save my life, if I can, I will really rob it." ”

The girl looked at Nandao's serious look and asked a little puzzled, "Then why can Peach Blossom save your life?" ”

As he spoke, he suddenly smelled the aroma of wine in the spring rain, and looked at Nandao with blank eyes.

"Your wine smells good, isn't it peach blossom wine, can you give me a sip?"

Nandao looked down at the wine jug in his hand, stretched out his hand and handed it over, the girl took the wine jug, but she didn't dislike it, she drank it to the spout, Nandao looked at the girl who was drinking with her head up, and smiled softly.

"It's a very bizarre story, I've told a lot of people in town, but they won't believe it, and I don't think you will believe it, if you want to hear it, maybe when I survive and meet again, I can tell you about it."

Listening to Nandao's flat tone, Rat Rat looked at him with some curiosity and asked, "Okay then, but seeing that you are so calm, aren't you afraid of death?" ”

Nan Dao said with a wry smile: "Of course I'm afraid, sometimes I dream that I fell asleep and died. But after so many years, it's good to get used to it. ”

The girl took two sips of the wine jug, seemed to be a little drunk, stood up and shook it twice, leaned over to the shore with her feet on her feet, handed the wine jug back, patted Nandao's shoulder, and said sincerely: "The rat rat is also afraid of death, so the rat will definitely help you with this today." ”

Nandao took the flask back, looked at her suspiciously, and said, "You really can?" ”

The girl's face was a little red, she nodded, patted her chest and said confidently: "Living in the world, do more good things, it's okay if you don't work, what's more, this is really good, you get on the boat first, I'll take you somewhere." ”

Nandao looked at him suspiciously, jumped onto the boat with the guardrail, the boat almost rolled over, the rat exclaimed, jumped back into the cabin and hugged a jar in the corner, and only breathed a sigh of relief when the boat was stable, and looked back at Nandao with some sadness.

Nandao held the umbrella and looked at the girl in the cabin, and said sorry embarrassedly.

When the girl saw that the jar was fine, she didn't think too much about it, and bent down to rummage in the cabin.

Nan Dao looked at the sentence on the bow of the boat, 'I love money the most', hesitated a little, and asked: "Do you want to collect money for doing good deeds, don't you open your mouth." ”

"A penny is fine." The girl's voice came from the cabin.

Nandao was not very convinced, standing under the umbrella and looking at her suspiciously.

The girl rat rat took a poncho out of the cabin, tied it to her body, picked up the penny at the bottom of the bilge, supported the boat and began to turn around, thought about it and sighed and said: "I know you don't believe it, but my story is also quite bizarre, many years ago, when I was a free rat and rat, I liked to steal something, and then I accidentally stole the door owner who liked to talk nonsense, and after he caught me, he began to talk nonsense, saying that I had a catastrophe in my life, and I had to do 100,000 good deeds, and I would charge a penny for each good deed, After saving enough 100,000 yuan, he helped me change my life. ”

Nandao was silent for a while, and didn't ask her why she believed it so much, but looked at her and asked another question: "Then how much have you saved?" ”

When the maiden rat heard this, she became happy, and said with a smile on her boat, "Fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty-six, no, sixty-seven." ”

"Is there so many?"

"yes, I've been floating on the river for twenty years."

"You look younger than I am."

"I'm a demon, I'll live for many years."

"It's good to live for many years, you're a rat demon?"

"Yes."

The two chatted all the way, and the boat drove slowly in the river.

After a short time, they stopped at a ferry crossing.

The girl held the penny, looked at the streets and alleys on the shore, confirmed that the location was correct, and then stretched out her hand to the South Island and said, "Okay, you can give money." ”

Nandao looked at this place suspiciously, the ferry was a long street, the street was full of people, and there was a large bluestone wall at the end of the drizzle long street, I don't know what the place was.

"You go up from here, and you come to the end of this street, and to the left along the wall, there is a little alley, and there is an old man who sells sugar and oil baba, and you tell him that the rat and mouse have asked you to come, and he will tell you what to do."

Nandao tilted his head and looked at the girl for a long time, and thought about it, anyway, there was only a penny, so he touched a penny from his arms and handed it to him, the girl took the money, entered the cabin with a smile, put the money into the big clay pot, and happily lay on the jar and said, "I saved another penny, hehe." ”

"If it doesn't work, I'll come back to you."

Nandao went ashore and looked at the girl in the cabin and said uneasily.

The girl waved her hand without looking back, indicating that it was completely fine, and the boat slowly left.

Nandao walked along the long street to the end, and there was indeed an alley to the left, so I walked into the alley, and it didn't take long to see the old man selling sugar and oil baba, and a few children holding umbrellas around and tiptoeing around looking at the oil pot.

Nan Dao walked over and said politely: "Hello uncle, it was the rat that called me over." ”

The old man glanced at him and stretched out his hand.

Nandao was stunned there, and after a long time, he heard the old man say, "Didn't she let you come to pay the money you owe?" ”

"......" Nan Dao was silent for a moment and said, "She said that you can teach me how to enter the Human Sword Sect." ”

The old man seemed to understand, grinned, and said, "I know, but you have to give the money first." ”

Nandao was silent for a long time, sighed, reached out to his arms, and said, "How much." ”

"One hundred and nine."

Nandao took a deep breath and said, "Okay. ”

The old man took the money, raised his hand and pointed to the end of the alley, and said, "There is a door there, and behind the door is the Human Sword Sect." ”

Nandao looked at the small door hidden in the crack at the end in a daze, and asked puzzledly, "Why is there a door here?" ”

After receiving the money, the old man's attitude was much better, and while holding food from the pot for the children, he said: "Hehe, because the disciples of the Sword Sect sometimes sneak out to play mahjong, so they secretly opened a door there, and if they win money, they will buy some sugar and oil baba to eat on the way." ”

Nandao was speechless for a long time.

It is worthy of the Sword Sect with 'human world' in its name.

Bidding farewell to the old man, Nandao walked towards the end of the alley, until he came to the small door, which was not locked, hesitated a little, raised his hand to push the door, and stretched out his head to look inside.

In the distance there are many trees unknown to the South Island, the canopy is luxuriant, obscuring most of the vision, there is a path that has been stepped out to lead further in, and in the distance there is a rare sound of flowing water, the South Island is observing, and then he hears a lazy voice from the right path.

"Spring is so good, but it's a pity that there is a lack of money."

Nandao turned his head and met the man's eyes.

It was a young man dressed in white with an umbrella, holding a sword in his hand and waving it indiscriminately, but he was a little surprised—or surprised—when he saw Nandao.

"Hello boy, do you know how to play cards?"