Fifty miles away from the lower reaches of the Wutuo River, there are reeds growing in clusters, it is the unique red reed in the west, but it is not the red leaf of the caramel, but the flower red that blooms, the west wind passes, the sky is full of red glow, now it is in the middle of summer, the pole eye is still a piece of emerald green.

The river reflects the blue sky and white clouds, and an egret skimmes the river, treading water a little in the middle of the river, and there is a wild fish with a black back and white belly in its claws.

An old man sat quietly in the reeds by the river, holding a reed pole, tied silk thread, and crawled a fat green crab foaming at the bamboo basket on the side, and the bamboo basket mouth was covered with a fresh lotus leaf, and the center of the lotus leaf was sealed tightly.

This belt has a smooth sentence: after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the green shuttle climbs, one or two crab paste and one or two silver.

On the nearby field road, there was a young man wearing straw sandals with rolled trousers and a hat on his back and a little donkey walking, which grass pile should have slept in before, some blades of hay were stuck to his long hair tied up haphazardly, but a red mark on his eyebrows made him look unusual, and there was a small bruise on his right cheek, he had slept too long just now, and he was kicked by the impatient little donkey. The little donkey is very black, it is a wild donkey picked up, thin as an old dog, it is suddenly unhappy to leave, the young man can't pull the straw rope in his hand, turn his head to look, spit out the grass core in his mouth, walk back and squat in front of the little donkey with a good face and say: "Brother donkey, tired? ”

The little donkey chewed dryly, and its feet trembled slightly.

"Take a sip of water." The young man picked up the little donkey with one arm, and when he saw that there was a path through the reeds and reached the river, he strode into it.

The old man didn't turn his head when he saw someone coming, the young man carried the little donkey to the river, picked up the river water with both hands and sent it to the little donkey's mouth, the little donkey turned his head at first, and the young man said a good meal before he obediently drank the water.

"Little brother, brutes can't get used to it." The old man quipped.

The young man stared at the little donkey to drink water, and replied with a smile: "In the future, it will have to carry me for many years, and this should be." ”

The old man nodded approvingly.

"Little brother, meeting is fate, let's eat a fresh green crab and exchange a few sips of wine for you, okay?" The old man turned around, although a pair of pupilless white eyes were strange, but with his appearance, they were not terrible.

"Good!" The young man responded straightforwardly, and then took the little donkey aside and tied it up.

"Hey, you're so good to it, and you're afraid that it will run away?" The old man was puzzled.

The young man came over and sat down, stuck the sword sheath in the mud, untied the wine gourd and handed it to the old man, smiled heartily, and replied, "It has the most headache for me all the way." ”

The old man took the wine gourd, pulled out the stopper and shook it, waited for the wine to snort, and said, "Little brother, eating crab and drinking has a different flavor, I bother you to use your sword to chop two reeds as a cup." ”

"Good!" The young man drew his sword and slashed.

The old man put down the wine gourd, picked up the lotus leaf on the bamboo basket, untied the red ribbon, and finally revealed the wrapped thing, which was lime sauce, and then took out a green crab from the bamboo basket, and flicked the shell with his index finger, and the green crab stopped moving.

When the young man walked back with two reed cups and put the sword into the sheath, the old man had already lifted the shell of the crab and placed it on the lotus leaf with eight points of crab legs.

"It's a good sword." The old man praised.

"It's called Peach Blossom." Young people don't shy away from it.

"Good name." The old man poured two cups and said, "Everyone eats Qingsuo autumn paste, but they don't know the deliciousness of summer meat." ”

As he spoke, the old man picked up a crab leg, dipped it in a lime, and handed it to the young man.

The young man is also not polite, pinching the crab legs and sending them to the mouth, and it is not elegant to talk about eating.

The old man also dipped a crab leg, and after tasting it, he raised a small cup and invited the young man to take a bite.

In the blink of an eye, a fresh green crab is feasted.

The little donkey chewed on the young leaves of the reed, and the young man looked quietly at the reed pole, hoping to catch another one.

The old man saw it and said with a smile: "I'm afraid I can't catch it today, the old man has calculated a hexagram, there should be two today, who knows that the little brother fed the donkey to drink water, and scared away the one, but the old man and the little brother fell in love, drank wine and ate crabs, it was also beautiful"

The young man put his hands on his knees and lowered his eyebrows to think about it, and suddenly became enlightened, the red mark was particularly obvious after drinking, and said interestingly: "Old man, this is the reason." I plough the fields and plant rice, talk good things to the cows, gossip with the rice, and hope for a good harvest. Later, I recognized, to the wind and rain I will store water to raise fish, to frost and snow I will feed the frozen rice to the cattle, go with the flow, so that I can also watch the insects and watch the flowers bloom and fall and watch the fish swim in the water, and then later, I feel that the mountains are reasonable, the spider webs make sense, the mountain birds nest makes sense, a lump of cow dung also makes sense, the biggest truth is that the rice that has experienced the wind, rain, frost and snow makes wine, more mellow and more fragrant. ”

The old man listened attentively, and after listening to the young man's words, he commented: "What a kind of way." ”

On the Wutuo River, a caravan boat is moving slowly down the river.

Zong Yang and Yuan Ben sat in the stern of the boat, Zong Yang sat on the end of the boat to recuperate, and listened to an old man on the bow of the boat talking about jokes with a startling wood, while Yuan Ben lay down into a big character and looked up to the sky and fell asleep. Since being injured by the Manghu Zhenren, the two of them have rested in Wutuo Town for five days, eating and drinking, as for the bottle of Purple Spirit Pill, they have already been thrown into the pit by Yuan Ben, saying that they can't see it, and secondly, they will definitely cripple the Manghu Zhenren to take revenge.

On both sides of the bow sat seven or eight people from Wutuo Town, both men and women, who were listening to the old man's jokes, except for a scholar who raised his eyebrows and hugged his chest with disdain. Among them, there were three women from good families who were traveling together from time to time peeking at Zong Yang, and the whispers were particularly energetic, I don't know what to say, the one in the middle also pulled up his sideburns and blushed, and glanced at Zong Yang shyly.

In addition to a piece of shocking wood, the old man also has a porcelain bowl, which will be a few copper coins, he said that he is the best at a long period of ghost love, picked up the porcelain bowl, the old hand like chicken feet wiped the copper money and stuffed it into his arms, and then leaned down to scoop the evening water from the river, and drank more than wine, after drinking a mouth, his eyes swept the listener, and said mysteriously: "Next, the old man I will tell a secret story that I have seen with my own eyes recently, okay?" ”

The old man asked, and when he saw everyone's eyes, he knew that there was a play, so he shook his feet and put the porcelain bowl in front of him.

A middle-aged man who understands the rules took the lead in throwing out two copper coins into the bowl, and the rest of the people took out the copper power, and the old man swept the tinkling copper coins, smiled, and clenched his fists and said: "This matter is mysterious, the old man I said that I may want to fold my life, and please take care of everyone." ”

The old man's tricks are perfect, and his expression seems to be serious.

The middle-aged man is a small businessman, how can he care about this little money, and immediately throw in eight or nine copper coins, and the rest of the people also cheered, after all, it was to pass the boring time of taking the boat, but only the scholar did not pull out a dime, and he raised his chin very highly, but he didn't know that he was privately despised by the three women opposite.

When the old man saw the small half bowl of copper coins, the thief smiled and hurriedly started.

"It is said that a few days ago, the two women in the city of Sunset Guantou had a private fight, and there was a sword aura and a flying sword, which caused a lot of alarm. In fact, this is a piece of cake, do you know that three people died in the restaurant at noon that day, one was pierced through the heart, one was full of holes, and one died in a ruin behind the restaurant, without a good bone in the body, these ways to die are not simple. Then in the evening of that day, the Wutuo River was cut off by a mysterious light. The next day, there was a big crater at the ferry, which was not done by man. ”

Several people in the audience straightened up.

The old man leaned down, pretended to be sneaky, and said, "Do you know why it's not peaceful these days?!" ”

The atmosphere was so good that even the scholar leaned over to an ear.

"There are immortals! There are youkai! The old man said with his eyes open and his voice suppressed, for fear of being heard by the gods or monsters.

The people on the boat didn't dare to breathe when they heard it, but the scholar sneered, he had read the books of sages since he was a child, and the last thing he believed in was ghosts and gods.

But the scholar's sneer was obviously out of place, and was silenced by other people's warnings, in their opinion, you don't spend money to listen to it is already cheeky, and you are still mischievous, and the reader is so unwelcome.

The old man was also a little annoyed by the scholar who was not on the right path at the beginning, and said more seriously: "I have seen it!" In the border fortress, the gods and monsters fought, and the city wall was destroyed! ”

The old man said that he was very familiar with picking up the porcelain bowl and wiping the money into his arms.

"Impossible!" The scholar finally couldn't help it. The border city wall is thirty-three zhang high and twenty zhang thick, stretching for one mile, who can destroy it?!

The old man's words were a bit outrageous, but the middle-aged man said with a calm face: "It seems that the border is blocked." ”

The old man nodded heavily at the middle-aged man and mentioned: "Old man, I just went to the border barracks to talk about jokes to earn some rewards, and when I came back, I happened to see a team of soldiers and horses transporting a large water tank into the customs. ”

"Big tank?" The scholar was reluctant to let go of any clues to refute.

The old man ignored the scholar and continued only to the listener who gave the money: "This large water tank is wrapped in several large iron chains, and it is covered with yellow paper talismans. ”

Even the Dao Fu came out, it seems that it has something to do with the gods and monsters, the people on the boat are a little cold on their backs when they are blown by the river breeze, and the old boatman in the tent has already listened attentively, and he pressed his thumb into the pipe without putting a cigarette, and his soul was burned.

"Later, two Taoist priests flew from the sky, and all the defenders were respectful, and then later, two more people in red clothes flew in, who were demons and came to grab the big water tank! The two Taoist priests and the two red-clothed men fought without saying a few words, and the scene was simply a fight between the gods! ”

"How did the gods fight?" The scholar is unrelenting, but this sentence is in line with other people's wishes.

"I don't know!" The old man said helplessly, "As soon as the gods fight, of course I will run away, how dare I stand and watch!" But the ears were terrified, and when they ran two miles and looked back, most of the entire wall was destroyed. ”

"That's it?" The scholar asked, raising the corners of his mouth.

The old man's eyes trembled and said, "Also, I met a Taoist priest chasing corpses in the back!" ”

"And then you ran away again? Didn't look at anything?! "The scholar has run out of patience.

"Yes!" The old man nodded for some reason, his eyes began to look left and right in a panic, and the old man opened his mouth and stretched out his hand to point, as if he had found something.

Zong Yang smiled at the old man.

Everyone looked around for some reason, but there was nothing unusual.

The old man blinked a few times and then scanned the surroundings, sure that the boat was moving forward, but he seemed to have seen the boat moving against the current.

In fact, the old man was not dazzled, just now, Zong Yang used his divine sense to resist the sword, at first the sword did not move, and after a few breaths, he suddenly found that the boat was going against the water, and when he looked down, he found that the hilt of the sword was against the plank of the bow, so the sword did not move the boat. Zong Yang's divine consciousness is not just as simple as swallowing the Seven Dragons Pregnancy Divine Pill to recover, but has undergone a metamorphosis, and there is a great opportunity to go to the next level, which is why there is a sword to break the river, and a homeopathic breakthrough at this time.

The scholar set his eyes on Zong Yang, expecting that the chivalrous warriors of the rivers and lakes were more knowledgeable than the people of Shengdou Caomin, so he asked Xiang Zongyang: "This swordsman, do you believe the old man's fairy and demon theory?" ”

Zong Yang replied directly: "Letter." ”

The scholar laughed boldly, and immediately had a rejection of Zong Yang's differences, and immediately said at length: "Jokes! Heaven and earth have righteousness, and miscellaneous manifolds. The lower part is the river mountain, and the upper part is the sun star. Yu people say Haoran, full of gloom. The royal road is clear, containing and Tuming Court. When the poor festival is seen, one by one. This is a heroic and righteous spirit, is it the gods, demons and ghosts in your mouths? Our generation should read the books of the sages and know the manager, and not be ignorant and superstitious. Those flying swords and sword qi are mostly tricks in the rivers and lakes, and those mysterious scenes are mostly false rumors, old man, you are just talking nonsense, you must not confuse the public with fake and real! If it is serious, it will destroy my empire's society! ”

The scholar foamed at the mouth, but the people on the boat were stunned and didn't know what to do, the scholar laughed at the grass people are the grass people, and then he didn't have the general knowledge, and said frankly: "I should have given a few copper coins, but I gave it a letter, which is contrary to the principle of late life, please forgive me!" ”

The old boat family took a puff of cigarette, when he was young, he was also a reckless man who mixed in the waterways, and he had never seen gods and demons and ghosts, but he had seen the flying sword and sword qi more than once, and he smiled and revealed a big black front tooth, and persuaded: "Young man, is it not long after leaving the house, be careful that there are gods above your head." ”

The old boatman's sentence was not a good taste for the scholars who really did it not long after he left home, and he pointed to the heavens: "There is only spirit and spirit above my head, how can I come to ...... spirit?"

The scholar was about to look up to the sky and rebuke the gods, but he saw a person stepping on a sword and volleying in the air.

The person is a young girl, dressed in flowers. The sword is a purple sword engraved with an image of the goddess Nuwa.

The little girl stepped on the sword in front of Zong Yang, jumped down, took out a candy man from her arms, took a small bite, and asked Xiang Zong Yang angrily: "Hey, what's your name?" ”

Zong Yang recognized this prematurely mature little girl, smiled slightly, and replied, "Zong Yang." ”

The little girl's two big ink pupils avoided Zong Yang's gaze and said, "My name is Xiao Zhao." ”

After the little girl finished speaking, she turned around, suddenly frowned, and kicked the sleeping Yuan Ben far into the river with a domineering kick, and then jumped on the flying sword and lost the sentence: "Wait for me for ten years, don't mess with flowers, otherwise I will kill you!" ”

The people on the boat were surprised that the little goddess came with a sword, but they were even more shocked by the last sentence.