There are two big mountains in the central and southern part of Chiwang Hill, one is called Jigong Mountain and the other is Jingmu Mountain. In the hinterland of Jingmu Mountain, there is a valley, the grass in the valley is fragrant, and the flowers fall in the middle, smiling and showing their faces. There is a stream flowing through, gurgling, upstream of the stream, there is a small lake separated by a natural shallow dam, and a mass of tubular material in the lake is exposed to the water, I don't know what. Two miles away from the lake, bamboo waves, under the bamboo forest, a hut, there are two old people in front of the house.

The old people have silver hair, but their complexions are ruddy and have few wrinkles, and it is not necessarily an exaggeration to say that they have crane hair and a childish face.

The old woman swinged, there was no swing frame, only two slings and a board, hanging out of thin air, as if there was a pair of invisible hands pulling the rope. The old man pushed from time to time next to him.

The old man said, "Su, we have lived in this place for ten years, and it is time to change places." ”

"Also, tomorrow will be ten years old, and we still have a lot of places to go. ”

"You can't make the place you live too comfortable in the future, you're too sticky. The old man pushed the old woman on her back again.

"It's not my fault, it's only my fault that I married a capable husband. ”

The old man laughed heartily, and the strength in his hand was a little more, and the swing rose at an angle of eighty degrees. Suddenly, the old man let out a "huh", and the laughter gradually stopped. The old woman asked what was going on?

"Jianmuzhi only came back today, and this kid is going out with it again, and by perception, it's coming to us. ”

"It can't be coming for us, is it?" said the old woman's face turned into a mixture of nervousness and hope.

"How could he know about us? Jianmu wouldn't betray me. Eighty percent is going to Tao Tang's new little guy. ”

"He's a bit ostentatious about going around like this, and a lot of people are staring at him. The old woman said worriedly. The swing swings lesser.

"This kid is thoughtful, so don't that heart. The old man pushed the old woman again, this time with a very light force.

As the swing swayed gently, the old woman fell silent, and the old man did not speak, only pushing when needed.

After a long time, she spoke: "Uncle, do you really want to help this child?"

The old man said categorically: "No." ”

"He is weak, only Qi Yun can help him, and the one opposite is not simple. The old woman jumped lightly from the swing, moving lightly, like a young man.

The old man snapped his fingers, and the swing disappeared abruptly, as if it had never existed. "What big waves can a few little trash fish make? I think about my great-grandson, who can create a small world. ”

"He's so young, but he's under so much pressure. She frowned, her words uneasy.

"It's a good thing that people are under pressure, I have to think about this truth a long time ago, Jiuqiu will not be so lifeless as it is now, people are spoiled and don't want to forge ahead. ”

"You're still blaming yourself?"

"What's the use of blaming yourself? The best remedy is to let go. It's ridiculous, when others say I'm a saint, I really think of myself as a saint. ”

"Now that you've let it go, let it pass. The old woman stepped forward and hugged her husband gently, "I understand you, you pulled me out to travel, and I don't blame you for not coming home for hundreds of years." I could have enjoyed my family at home. ”

"Family fun?" the old man gently pushed his wife away, put his hands on her shoulders, and looked directly at her, "Let the children revolve around you, or do you continue to take care of the big things? At home, you are like an old hen guarding her cubs." ”

The old woman avoided her husband's gaze, sighed softly after a moment, and turned to leave. She walked to a meadow and touched the blades of grass with both hands, and the nearby blades of grass were raised, rolled, and intertwined. The blades of grass shuttled quickly between each other, as if a pair of dexterous hands were weaving objects, and the first appearance was the chair legs, which continued to grow upward, followed by the chair surface, armrests, and chair rests. In just over ten seconds, a turquoise recliner appeared on the grass.

"What are you doing? ”

"You won't let me go home to see my great-grandson, it's not a problem for me to lie here and watch him fly by, right?" said the old woman angrily on the chaise longe.

The old man smiled, "This is fine." He snapped his fingers, and an identical chaise longue appeared beside his wife like a trick, and he exclaimed, "I have created more than your mimicry." ”

His wife glanced sideways at him, then turned her head away from him.

The old man smiled, walked over to his chaise longue, and laid himself down. "To be honest, I blame them. But I can't, and once I turn back, I won't have the courage to leave. ”

A faint sigh came from the chaise longue next door.

"It's still half a day away, so I'll sleep for a while. The old man muttered. After a while, a slight snoring sound was heard. The old woman looked at the sky without blinking, as if her great-grandson would fly over at any moment.

In the blink of an eye, it was dusk, and the sound of water in the lake not far away woke the old man from his slumber. A tall alien stepped on the lake and walked towards the shore, the alien was about three meters high, the head was like a dense tubular worm, it was impossible to confirm whether it had facial features, and there were dozens of pairs of appendages on the chest and abdomen, of which a pair of appendages on the chest were as long as a person's forearms, and the rest of the appendages were less than three centimeters.

The old man sat up and greeted the aliens, "Cain, old man, come and sit down for a while." The old man snapped his fingers, and beside him appeared a large, strangely shaped chair with three thick grooves in the surface to allow Cain to place its three whiskers.

"The sentence (just) is solid. "Cain's voice sounded like the whistle of a train whistle, and his articulatory organs were not well adapted to human language.

"Old man, tomorrow we are leaving, and this valley will be returned to you. The old man waited for Kain to sit down in his chair and spoke.

There was a "woo-la-woo" sound in the air, like a naughty child constantly honking a whistle. Kain's pipes and appendages poured out a lot of water, which flowed down the chair into the grass.

"Don't cry, old man, we'll come back to see you when we're free. ”

"The house is for the rewarders (I will miss you). Cain responded.

Kain had lived alone in this valley for thousands of years, until ten years ago, when the elderly couple came to the valley, taught him the human language, and dressed the valley as a beautiful place. During the day, the old couple is the master of the valley, Cain sleeps in the lake, and late at night Cain enjoys this world alone, from dusk to sea, it is the time for both parties to spend together. The old man and Cain were talking, most of the time the old man was talking, occasionally with a steam chime or two.

When the red crescent moon slipped to the east and the white full moon slowly climbed, the old man stopped talking, he put his finger to his mouth and made a silent gesture, and Cain got up from his chair with great interest, "The house is stinging (I'm going to eat)." Kain walked into the distance, his steps heavy, and at this time he really looked like an old man on crutches, making a "woo-la-woo" sound.

"He was sad. The old woman said.

"He's too sentimental. The old man frowned, then snapped his fingers, and a transparent bubble appeared around Cain's body, and the sound of steam stopped abruptly. Unaware, Cain continued to stagger.

"Why don't we stay a few more days?" said the old woman.

"Shh......h He's coming. The old man lay down and twisted his body twice to make himself more comfortable.

The old woman hurriedly lay down, her eyes eager and kind. There is a small black dot in the northern sky that is moving rapidly towards the west of the valley.

"Hey, old man, see you again, he actually turned you into a pencil? hehe, that's interesting. When I handed you over to this kid, I was worried that he wouldn't be able to control it. The old man muttered to himself, but at this moment there was a sound of sobbing from the neighboring seat.

"What's wrong with you?" asked the old man.

"It's too far away to see clearly. ”

"It's a lot. The old man scolded lightly, snapped his fingers, and ten meters above them, the image of a young man appeared, stepping on a pencil, flying through the air. The young man seemed to sense something, and looked down. The old man hurriedly snapped his fingers again, and there was an extra layer of transparent film over them. The young man looked at it for a moment, but found nothing, and then urged the pencil to speed away. When the black dot disappeared in the southern sky, the figure of the young man above his head also dissipated.

"He almost found out. The old man patted his chest exaggeratedly.

"This kid is getting more and more handsome. The old woman said proudly, "Like when you were young." ”

"Are you satisfied?"

The old woman nodded, she stood up, took out five colored beads in her arms, threw them into the sky, and gestured, and the colored beads kept dripping and turning in the sky.

"What are you going to do here?" the old man glared at his wife angrily.

"Let's see if there's any danger in Tyre's trip. The old woman said, gesturing non-stop, and the old man shook his head helplessly.

After a long time, the old woman took back the colored beads, and she said with a heavy face: "Tai'er is nothing, but it will be dangerous for Shu'er to pass through here on her way back." ”

The old man also began to get nervous: "Is there a danger of killing?"

"It should ...... Let's turn evil into good fortune. The old woman hesitated, "Do you want to inform Tai'er and let my sister go with him on the way back?" ”

The old man recovered: "If it's just danger, it's not a thing. You don't care, how can young people not experience a little wind and rain. ”

"But it's a girl after all. ”

The old man stomped his feet: "If you say don't care, don't care." ”

The old woman lay on her side on the chaise longue with her back to her husband and ignored him.

When Cain returned, the old woman came alive, and she proposed, "To-morrow is to be gone, or I will sing a farewell song for Kain?" The old man and Cain readily agreed, and the old man got up from his chaise longue and stood there to enjoy his wife's beautiful singing and dancing.

"The slanting sun is lonely and the smoke dances, blowing a roll of remnant clouds, who combs the green silk. Lonely just to get together with people...... the old man was so angry that he almost turned his back on it, his wife composed countless songs, but chose this most poignant song of resentful women, this is to make his heart soft! The old man suddenly had a pair of earplugs in his ears, looked up at the moon, and did not listen to the song or enjoy the dance. He estimated that the time was almost up, and then he revisited the field, and sure enough, the singing and dancing had stopped, and he quietly removed the earplugs. But he heard Cain's "woo-la-woo-la" steam roaring constantly, and the water in his body kept gushing out of the tubes and appendages as if he didn't want money, and his body was obviously thinner.

The old man glared at his wife fiercely, "Do you want him to cry to death?" and then turned to Cain and said, "Old man, go to the lake to rest for a while and replenish some water." And his wife, like a little girl who had done something wrong, was at a loss, she didn't expect Kain's reaction to be so great.

Cain whistled his whistle toward the lake, and the old man snorted and snapped his fingers, and the two chairs he had conjured disappeared without a trace, and the mimic chair collapsed as if it had been pulled out, and soon there was only grass left. The old man turned and walked towards the hut, and the old woman followed flatteringly.

In the middle of the night, the door of the hut opened, and the old woman flashed out, and sneakily glanced back into the house, and then walked quickly to the bamboo grove beside the house.

She gently pressed her palm on the bamboo branch, a phoenix-shaped mark lit up in the center of her eyebrows, and she kept chanting in her mouth: "Yu Wan's distraction, come out quickly, I hope you can help my child." ”

In the early morning of the second day, the old couple each carried a simple bag.

The old woman was still reluctant: "Aren't you separated from Kaindao?"

"He's sleeping, so I don't bother him, I'm afraid I'll see him cry like dried squid. ”

"Okay...... Where are we going this time?"

"Meng Huanqiu, I know a good place, a little decoration, ten million times better than here. ”

"And say I'm sticky, I think you did it on purpose. The old woman rolled her eyes at her husband and let out a long sigh: "It's getting farther and farther away from home." ”

The old man who was recognized laughed embarrassedly twice: "Out of sight is pure, so as not to worry about you." ”

He put his left hand around his wife's waist, snapped his fingers with his right hand, and a scene of light appeared in front of them.