Chapter 256: Li Jiumei

This is a beautiful and quiet small village, with green bamboo forests one by one, and hundreds of families scattered inside and outside the bamboo forest. Because of its location under the mountains, the fields here are barren, but the people in the village are not short of food rations, because a large river 500 zhang wide is entrenched below the village, where the water is calm and the fishing is abundant.

This small village is called Shanya Village, and the big river below the village is called Nanxi River, which is named after the Xiyun Mountains that originated in the South China Sea Empire. This great river almost runs through most of the land of the West Sea Empire and the South China Sea Empire, and it is a collection of countless large and small tributaries, and the main river is tens of thousands of miles long, feeding hundreds of millions of people in the two countries.

And this village already belongs to the scope of Yingshui City, although it is in the most remote place.

At dusk, the sunset was blood-red. Although the village on the edge of the river is less humid than the sweltering heat of midsummer, the residual temperature of the day is still a little scorching to the skin. Five or six well-dressed rural girls, holding bamboo baskets in their hands, laughed and walked down the long winding stone steps towards the river. They are all seventeen or eighteen years old, and they are very kind and cheerful who don't know how to cultivate.

"Ninth sister, how many girls do you go to the river to do laundry? An old man driving a buffalo passed by the sloping stone steps, with a long dry tobacco in his mouth, and a kind smile: "Don't think about you going to swim in the river all the time, be careful of being swallowed by the water monster, besides, how big is not small, and I am not ashamed." ”

"Well, grandpa. One of the girls in a blue dress walked over and snatched the cigarette gun from the old man's mouth, extinguished it, and said with a cute smile: "You are old, you are not allowed to smoke so much." ”

"I know the way, I know the way. ... Grandpa Li, we'll be back soon, don't worry, the ninth sister is notoriously the most obedient. Several girls also promised with bright smiles, and were very humble to the old man who drove the cattle. ...

"Ninth sister, come back early, there are not many five flavors at home, and I have to go to the city for my grandfather to buy some tomorrow. The old man gave some advice, and he drove the big buffalo up the slope. I lit a cigarette gun with a flame again, and I clicked it on my own...

In a short time, six young girls went down to the river. Put the bamboo basket full of sweatshirts in your hands on the smooth reef by the river, and wash your clothes with a mallet and a mallet......

"Ninth sister, you are eighteen this year, and you are so smart and moving. A young girl wiped the sweat on her pink forehead with her sleeve and was amused: "I heard that many big families in the area next door have come to mention marriage, how about it, can there be a talented person in the picture?"

Speaking of which, it makes people envious, jealous and hateful, and in the past two years, the threshold of the ninth sister's family has been trampled by the people who proposed marriage. Another woman laughed: "The red gift of big bags and small packets, that is only exchanged for genuine gold ingots... Why don't your grandfather always accept anything, it's a free gift. ”

"Grandpa said, eat other people's mouth is short, take other people's soft hands. "Li Jiu Mei'er smashes her clothes delicately... Qian's face was dignified and serious: "I know that Lu Dao and my grandfather taught me right." ”

"Don't say that, don't say that, your Li Jiu Mei'er's reputation is hundreds of miles away, and the people who talk about the wind and rain and give it away for nothing are all in vain. ”

"I think the most important thing for people is to be worthy of themselves in their hearts. Li Jiumei'er's words are not like a philistine, and her face, which is not smeared with red powder, has a heroic spirit that is rare for ordinary people, and then follows: "Therefore, those who do not belong to themselves are always not their own." If you take it, you will feel uneasy. ”

"You're thinking too much... What are you doing?"

"Maybe... Because、So、In the end。 Li Jiu Mei giggled indifferently, and struggled to beat her clothes...

In less than half an hour, these beautiful pink beauties washed and eliminated the clothes in the bamboo basket. The sunset in the sky began to darken silently, and the mild sky was changing towards the blackness that would always come.

"The old rule is that whoever catches the biggest fish wins. ”

"No problem. ”......

The girls ignored the baskets of clothes resting on the riverside, and plunged into the boundless river. ......

In a short time, they all swam quickly or slowly to the heart of the general who was hundreds of feet away from the shore. ...... People who are good swimmers know that the seemingly calm surface of the river is always surging with turbulent undercurrents underwater! It can be seen that these children who have lived by the river since childhood have mastered the nature of water that they are very familiar with.

Then they dived into the deep water... It seems that I really came to catch fish with my bare hands in the middle of the river?......

The sky was slowly darkening. The depressed night wind began to rage on the riverside......

Several women sneaked up the river from the deep water to the riverbank...... What is extremely shocking is that they really have a big fish in their hands! Each one is as big as 10 catties! There is even a young girl holding a big turtle weighing 20 or 30 catties in her arms......

"Where's the ninth sister?" After waiting for a long time, it was almost dark, and several girls felt a little scared more and more. They have never found the slightest figure of the ninth sister on the vast and dark river. ...

Half an hour later.

"It's miserable... Something must have happened... The water nature of the ninth sister is very good. ”

"No, I'll go down to the river to search for her. ”

"I'll go too!" this really scared several girls, and for a while they were ready to go into the water again.

"Wait, look. A young girl suddenly snorted, pointing to the distant river that was a little dark and difficult to see.

"That's... Nine sisters?"

"Yes, it's the ninth sister. Scared the hell out of me. ”... The scared girls finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"She seems to be dragging something hard, otherwise it wouldn't be so slow. ”

"It can't be a big fish of dozens of pounds, right?

"This is not unusual, last time the ninth sister caught a sixty-eight-pound tarpon in the river, and the fish was full of razor-like fangs!"

More than ten minutes later. It was completely dark, and Li Jiu Mei'er also swam to the river bank out of breath.

"What are you dragging? It's so hard..."Several girls hurriedly went to the reef to help Li Jiu Mei'er in the water.

"What? It's a weird sack!"

Looking at a strangely shaped sack dragged up... Several girls couldn't understand how to speak, and they were even a little scared...

“... I, I... I found it in a chaotic and chaotic stone in the heart of the river... This sack was stuck in a rock..."Li Jiumei was really tired, and she sat slumped on the slippery reef and was squeamish...... The jade hand wiped the sweat of the eyebrows... He said breathlessly: "Should, it should be, it's a person..."

What? is a person... The delicate bodies of several girls couldn't bear to retreat quietly, revealing a look of fear on their faces.

"Ninth sister, you picked up a dead man from Jiang Xin, aren't you afraid?"

"Yes, the old people said this thing would be ominous. ”

"I'm scared, let's go, leave it alone. ”

“... No... No..."Li Jiu Mei'er waved her hand slightly, still panting..."I, I just want to cover him with loess, after all, this situation is very unjust... This is also a little bit of virtue. ”

"Don't talk about that. It's getting dark, please, let's go. ”

"yes, let's go, I suddenly feel like it's very eerie..."

"A few frightened Nizi!" Li Jiumei'er breathed a little smoother, stood up and pretended to be disgusted and shouted: "Don't scare yourself, you haven't done anything bad and are afraid that the ghost will knock on the door, open the sack first and see clearly." After that, he went to untie the rope at the mouth of the sack.

The girls tried to stop it, but they finally said nothing in their timidity.

In the middle of summer, there are always stars in the sky, and although the newborn stars are very faint, they can still be faintly seen for eyes who are accustomed to night.

Several girls cowered timidly, and couldn't bear to watch Li Jiu Mei'er untie the bag from time to time, and then slowly faded the sack from the object...

"Oh my God!

"yes! Why are there so many black and bright fluorescences?"

The moment it was just opened, several girls were really scared... The sack was wrapped in wisps of shining black light! And then it completely disappeared in an instant! This scene was extremely strange... Even Li Jiu Mei'er was secretly startled!

Then a wet figure was revealed, a young man in Tsing Yi. The short and long hair is very wet and soft and black, but the cheeks are extremely white, and the weak limbs are even softer... It is Xia Yang, but it is still Xia Yang who does not know life and death. But it seems that the broken and sunken nose bone has re-erected... Could it be that the black stone healed a lot of the wounds on his body again?

"It's a pity, this brother is really cute, how can he be so short-lived?"

"Your face gives people an incomparably friendly feeling even if you are dead, alas, what a grievance. ”

When the girls saw Xia Yang's face clearly, the fear in their hearts instantly faded a lot, and they talked in a low voice.

"Not true. Li Jiu Mei'er shook her head lightly, and said thoughtfully: "It stands to reason that a person who is drowned in water will have a swollen body, and even if he dies and is thrown into the river without drinking water, his whole body will be stiff, but..."

"yes... It's weird. ”

Several girls also shook their heads slightly when they heard this, feeling very inexplicable.

"Okay, Orchid, you help me get the basket, and I'll carry him home first. Li Jiu Mei'er said, carrying Xia Yang's soft body on her back.

For this appalling behavior, several girls have spoken to no avail... But the fear in my heart really weakened too much, and I climbed the winding stone steps up the sparsely lit village......