Moonlight in the Sea (Part I)

When it was a child, the sea breeze howled, showing its unruliness. It was supposed to be the dead of night, but today it was noisy.

Not long after Abel lay down, he heard a noise, put on a single coat and went out, only to see the heavy torches in the distance, as if it was a festival, forming a long dragon of flames.

He narrowed his eyes and saw Xu Changan coming over, and before he could speak, Xu Changan took the lead and said, "It's Bao." ”

Abel subconsciously turned his head to look at the floor slab on top of the house, but quickly turned his head.

"He was a kind kid. Xu Changan was stunned, the moonlight shone on the steps, one of his feet stepped up, and Ah Bo looked at his other foot, whether to take a step back towards Ah Bao, or to go back to the house one step further.

Xu Changan only hesitated for a moment, and a look of shame appeared on his face.

"Do you have time, tell me what's going on?" Abel folded his hands and led back to the room. Xu Changan nodded and followed into the house.

Abel poured himself a bowl of Xu Changan's extremely bitter tea, took a sip, and frowned.

"People who have to live a hard life will not feel bitter when they drink this thing. Ordinary people twist a little tea with their fingers, and they have to wash the tea three or four times to wash away the bitterness and bitterness, leaving only the mellowness. It's good for you, a big pot is boiled, not like boiling tea, but like boiling medicine. ”

Just now, Abel just glanced at the pot of tea, but now he began to comment.

Xu Changan knew that Abel had something to say, so he lowered his head.

"If Ah Bao drinks this tea, he shouldn't feel bitter. ”

Abel nodded, smacked his lips, but still stood up and poured himself a bowl of herbal tea that had been boiled a long time ago.

"This tea has been picked, sun-dried, stir-fried, and then brewed, and when it is brewed, the particular people have to wash the tea, which leaves a mellow taste. It is polished little by little in order to last for a long time. ”

"But life is not, suffering will not polish you little by little, it is not an elder, it is more like an overwhelming tsunami, if suffering comes, it will destroy you with all it has. Everyone hopes that suffering can be like a fine water, flowing for a long time, and life will be like a tea to boil a little taste, but the suffering in life is not a thin water, it is a tsunami. ”

Hearing this, Abel looked at Xu Changan and sighed.

"So, when you boil tea, it's like boiling medicine, it must have a strong flavor? ”

When Xu Changan heard this, he remembered his master.

When the master had not yet gotten up, the little master would start to make a fire and make tea, and the amount of tea should be accurately controlled, and the amount of hot water and how much water should be used to wash the tea. Because of the existence of the little master, when he and the master got up, they could taste a sip of mellow tea.

He suddenly sighed and nodded.

"In life, there is a taste of everything, and only after you get through it can you exuate a mellow fragrance......;

Xu Changan lowered his head, paused, and picked up the second half of the sentence.

"That can't be any better, hard boiling. ”

Abel smiled, noncommittal, the little warmth here has never warmed the heart of this young man, he is not destined to be here. Abel took a deep look at Xu Changan and changed the topic.

"Tell me what's going on with Po. ”

Xu Changan nodded, he knew that Abel and Xiaoyuan were good to him, and he also thought that it would be good to stay incognito for a lifetime, and it was none of his business to have any demon clan or Confucius Temple.

But there are some things that he doesn't

can escape, the Nine Dragons Talisman given to him by Mo Qingshui is still here. He knew that as long as the master wanted to sense, he could always find him through the piece of Nine Dragons Talisman he had obtained from Fengwu Mountain.

And ah, those who read him, he always has to go out and have a look, and at least say "thank you".

Xu Changan poured himself another bowl of extremely bitter tea, poured it in one gulp, and then told Bao's story completely, including his chance encounter with an old madman, and that old madman was his friend.

After hearing this, Abel's brows furrowed.

"Are you saying that Zu Yinghua had bad intentions when they gave the pill?"

Xu Changan took a deep breath: "I know, ancestor ......"

"I believe in you. ”

Without waiting for Xu Changan to finish speaking, Abel took the lead in speaking, and Xu Changan was a little stunned.

"Drinking your seawater these days, although a little salty in the mouth, is much better than those who look red-faced. I still muttered in my heart, when I was young, those old guys were inferior to me, and a pill could bring them back to the old days? If there really was such a magical thing, my nephew would rather sell it for money than give it to us for free. ”

Abel smiled, though there was still a hint of concern on his face.

Xu Changan went out first, knowing that Ah Bao was caught by the well, and probably guessed what happened. Xu Chang'an told Abel about everything.

"And what do you want to do?"

Xu Changan shook his head: "I didn't think about it." ”

Abel suddenly stood up, put his hands behind his back, looked at Mingyue outside the window and said, "Back then, I was a bastard, and everyone was afraid of me, not because I was so good at fighting, but because I was ruthless enough." Although I am a bastard, at most I am about the same as Bao, when I chased Xiaoyuan and her mother, no one was optimistic, not even I had confidence. But one day, the old guy in the village wants to be a matchmaker and marry Xiaoyuan and her mother to another person, that guy is a hypocrite, but only I know. I couldn't let go of Xiaoyuan's mother in my heart, and I was unwilling to let go of the girl I liked was robbed, so I had no choice, so I rushed to his house with a harpoon. That guy saw that I was so aggressive, he actually told all his dirty things in private, and I took him and his mother to those old men, and they were thrown stones along the way, and some people asked me to release him. But they all looked at me fiercely, and as soon as I was frightened, they all got out of the way. At the old fellows, the brute shook off all the bad things he had done, even about the insult he had inflicted on his cousin, and even his mother had complained about his atrocities. In this way, I was able to marry Xiaoyuan's mother. ”

Looking at the way Abo's eyebrows danced, Xu Changan also smiled.

"Boy, those old guys are very pedantic, they only look at what is in front of them. Po was ruined in this way, for them, it was under pressure, subduing the enemy, and controlling the right to speak, which was useful. ”

Xu Changan understood what Abel meant, and immediately nodded: "Thank you, Abel!"

Abel poured Xu Changan a bowl of tea and handed it to him.

"What are the rules of the Raush clan that are very troublesome, you have to sacrifice, you have to apologize to your ancestors, and pray to the heavens, it will take a while to get to the point, you drink this bowl of tea first, and then go.

Xu Changan took the bowl of bitter tea he boiled, drank it all, wiped the corners of his mouth, and walked out of the door in the moonlight.

Abel looked at Xu Changan's back, squinted his eyes and scolded with a smile: "Bastard boy, there is the stubbornness of Lao Tzu back then!"

After saying that, he glanced at his daughter's door.

"Alright, come out. ”

The door creaked, Xiao Yuan walked out with her head down, pinching the corner of her clothes in her hand, she heard what her father said to Brother Xu just now, lowered her head, and kept blaming in her heart

Myself.

Why is it so easy to burn your face tonight!

Seeing his daughter's appearance, Abel smiled and pointed behind the door.

"This is your big brother Xu's sword, go ahead!"

Xiao Yuan's face was surprised for a while, and he looked at his father: "Dad, didn't you say that you put it upstairs to make a slab?" Xiao Yuan said, and pointed to his head.

"How can the sword in the man's hand be used to use the floor? There are more men who can chop wood and fish, but how many men can use the sword to protect you and his friends at the cost of their lives?"

"Dad, how could Brother Xu protect me......"

Before he finished speaking, Abel pushed his daughter.

"Hurry up and find your brother Xu, you can't beat other people's long swords with your bare hands!"

When Xiao Yuan heard this, he hurriedly walked towards the ancestral hall with the long sword wrapped in sackcloth by Abo.

Abel looked at his daughter's back and muttered, "Your father and me, look at the people." I've been a jerk to everyone in my life, but except you and your mother. Don't worry, the kid surnamed Xu, even if he doesn't like you, he will protect you for the rest of his life. ”

After finishing speaking, he looked in the direction of Zu Yinghua's ancestral house, and went back to the house to change his clothes.

......

Po was tied up, and it was very strong.

A child, how much the people in the village hate him, they will tie him up with a few large pieces of hemp rope.

Ah Bao didn't say a word, let others insult him, and brought it to the ancestral hall.

He refused to kneel, he was not wrong, why should he kneel, but in the end he was hit with a few sticks on his calf, and he fell to the ground.

Then, Wei Lao and several other old people confessed their guilt, saying that there was an unfilial descendant and asked the ancestors for forgiveness. Po was lying on the ground, with his back to them, and when he looked up, he could see the moon.

The moon is bright, but there are no stars around.

He sneered, disdainful of listening to the jumbled confessions of several old men.

It didn't take long for him to be brought out of the ancestral hall, and the pyre had already been set up outside, and Ah Bao suddenly laughed.

He remembered that when he and his mother were beaten and scolded by the man, he knelt in front of this ancestral hall. But alas, the ancestors did not bless him.

"Let go, I'll go up by myself!" Po shouted at the people around him, who didn't know where he got the courage.

The two adults actually let go of the child, and Ah Bao calmly walked onto the pyre, looking at the villagers coldly, with a disdainful smile on his face.

"Burn!"

Wei Lao didn't like this child the most, he felt that there was murderous intent in this child's eyes.

At the sound of an order, the torch was thrown towards the child, and the fire rose with thick smoke, and Po finally had tears, I don't know if it was because of the smoke or because he was about to die.

"Evil seed!" Wei Lao finally roared.

But Zu Yinghua was a little anxious, seeing that the fire was about to devour the child, and the two people had not yet appeared.

Just as he was thinking this, a ray of light suddenly appeared, cutting the rope that bound Bao!

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