Li Shuishan was reluctant to leave for the time being, because he had a wish in his heart, that is, to see the old man carry a fish, and after a few days in the blink of an eye, the sky was full of sunshine, he walked to the river, stood less than three steps away from the old man, and looked at him.

What can be confirmed is that the fisherman is a living person who does not eat or drink, but his eyelids are narrowed and he seems to be sleepy.

"If you like fishing, just squat on the side of the fishing rod, and I'll share the bait. ”

Li Shuishan stood quietly for a while and said, "I don't like fishing, but I like to watch people fish." ”

The old man opened his mouth with the remaining three teeth and said, "Why don't you say that you like to eat fish?"

Li Shuishan watched the old man's goose feather fish float move a few times, and said consciously: "The fish has been hooked." ”

The old man remained motionless, "Don't mention it, this pomfret is not the fish I want to catch this time, I want to eat the big-headed perch this month." When I think of the delicious pot stewed for me by my wife, my heart trembles. ”

"Is it really that delicious?" Li Shuishan asked, he put his hand on his back and twisted it slightly, and a seven- or eight-pound perch opened its big mouth and bit the hook, pulling it down hard, but the old man squinted his eyes and still didn't mention it.

"What kind of fish is this time, why don't you mention it?"

"I'm talking about sea bass. ”

"This time it must be sea bass, I don't believe you mention it. ”

The old man remained motionless and threw away the fishing rod, "No more fishing." ”

Unexpectedly, he had such a big temper, the old man who was over half a hundred years old did not eat or drink for a few days, and when he got up, the world spun around, and he took a step back and scolded Li Shuishan: "Lao Tzu has been fighting horses all his life, I just want to catch a small fish quietly, and I can use you, a hypocritical old boy, to deceive me, and get out of the way for me." ”

Li Shuishan naturally didn't get angry because of this sentence, and said softly: "This lake carries your favor and the soul of a dead great country, right? You can't actually catch any of them here, after all, perch doesn't eat dry meat, and whose body did this meat come from?"

The old man slapped his butt on the ground, raised his fingers and asked tremblingly, "Who are you?"

Li Shuishan picked up his fishing rod, hung a grass spike pinched down from the side on it and gently threw it in the river, and within a while, the fish was about to take the bait, lifted it lightly, and fell on the shore.

"Well, this is for you, don't be so obsessed with the past, even if you cut off all the flesh on your body, it will be difficult to recover those dead brothers. You cherish the time you have left, it's not much left. ”

In the distance, the person on the boat opened his voice again and shouted, take a boat!

The voice of the old woman was accompanied by the sound of stomping on the ground, and she held a thirteen or fourteen boy with a snot wipe in her back hand.

The boy looked a little stupid, wearing a pair of shabby breeches, walking with figure-eight steps on his legs, frowning as he walked, her mother often reprimanded him, what frowning at a young age, how sad was it?

Li Shuishan boarded the boat with them, and slowly rode into the distance, and learned from his mouth that this lake is called Panren Lake, and the name comes from the war period, where the young men who sent troops to defend against foreign enemies stepped on the big boat and went to their fearful war under the support of the villagers and elders

Field. A group of young women were left behind who refused to sleep all day long just to wait for their husbands to return, but received the news that they had indeed died. Some people were fishing and saw thousands of naked bodies lying on the other side of the lake, and their wives and children were weeping on the other side, and the tears ran dry, and their tears melted into the lake, so the intruder did not cross the river.

The young man looked at Li Shuishan with fearful eyes, raised his left index finger and pointed at him and said, "Mother, there is... There are immortals. ”

His wife slapped him on the head and said, "Don't talk nonsense, there are no gods here, one nose and two eyes, everyone is the same." ”

The farmer next to him tilted his head and said, "Gui'er's mother, don't hit Gui'er's head because of some trivial things, many people say that he is not very smart, I think even if you beat him." Whose brain can withstand a big hand like you?"

"You old farmer, take your boat well, and be nosy. My Gui'er is smart, right?" The young man still looked at Li Shuishan in fear and raised his finger, "Mother, you are a fairy." ”

The old woman raised her head to look at Li Shuishan, greeted him and smiled: "You look like a fairy?

The young man scratched his head and said, "I don't know, but you are an immortal." ”

Li Shuishan sat loosely, and there was an iron basin for fish beside him, which he moved aside, "If I can become an immortal, I will be happy! Unfortunately, no." ”

The young man looked at Li Shuishan and said a few words along the way, and then scratched his head and said no, he didn't like to talk, he said almost a hundred sentences along the way, and his mother complained on the side: What's wrong with this kid, usually let you talk about it, you don't talk about it, but now as soon as you get on the boat, you start to say again, saying that you are smart, you are really smart?

When Li Shuishan got off the boat, he lightly clicked in the air and said to the old woman: "A fool has a foolish fortune, don't hit him in the head, otherwise he will really not be smart in the future." ”

After Li Shuishan left, the young man and his mother suddenly stopped, raised his wide eyes, and said word by word: "Mother, I don't think my father is dead." ”

Old woman: "What nonsense are you talking about? Your father went with the army and never came back." ”

This time they crossed the lake, just to burn paper for his father, when passing by a familiar stall, the old woman handed out a package of paper money, "I'm old, this may be the last time I will sell, next time, I don't know who will come." ”

The old woman sighed and winked, thirty years had passed, old, old.

Li Shuishan's footsteps did not stop, this Longzhou is indeed as the name spreads, along the way, met seven or eight old men with swords on their backs, if you ask him where he is going, he doesn't want to say more, after all, the old saying often says, the old man carries a sword on his back and the world is in chaos.

But there are no longer a few rich children who fled by car along the way, they used to be afraid of this side, and now they are afraid of that side, stopping by the lake, sighing, and doing evil.

Who can blame his ancestors, because the man who crossed the lake by boat was cheeky, and the people who supported the boat were pale, and all the people who had committed the curse of heaven dared to cross the lake in these years?

His smiling face greeted him, and the rich family who looked at it laughed, which was considered an apology, and he thought: People here really forget their sins, then

It's good to cross the lake with peace of mind, and do less killing in the future.

The boat rider laughed: This group of people is really young and ignorant, waiting for the fat sheep to enter before biting.

Li Shuishan turned his head to look at the few old men who passed by again, and asked, "I don't know what happened, why did you go down the mountain with your sword on your back?"

One of the old men said: "There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, people have good and bad luck, the country's fortune has come to an end, and the Saihan Kingdom has attacked our country, even if the previous monarch is deeply sinful, but it cannot let the common people suffer." ”

Li Shuishan said: "Then how many people can you save?"

Another old man said: "It's one who can save one, anyway, or isn't it saving people." ”

It was reasonable, Li Shuishan let them go, but he went in the opposite direction, and continued to swim eastward, empty-handed, as if he was not with a group of refugees who were going against the grain, and some well-wishers advised him to flee quickly and there was still a chance of life, he smiled and said: "Why are cultivators afraid of war?"

Looking at these refugees, one could not help but think that the lifespan of cultivators is innumerable, some hundreds of years and some thousand years, but most of the mortals in front of them who may not have seen each other in the past have a lifespan of only a hundred, and even if there are a few mavericks, they are only favored by the heavens, so what can they do? In a short period of time, it is enough to experience once before their fragile lives die.

In the distance, the mighty breath of the city came, impacting a dust and soil, the whole dark cloud pressed down, the birds and birds chirped miserably, perched on the branches, and the peony flowers were dyed with blood, and bluntly said that they were going to be defeated, but the lake wind on that side could still resist the water vapor.

There was a fierce man, dressed in sharp armor and holding a long sword, which was placed across Li Shuishan's neck, and threatened: "Boy, if you don't give way, I will cut off your head as a night pot." If you don't have enough urine for one night, you will pee for two nights, and when you are cool, you will feed the dog. ”

Li Shuishan's face was expressionless, he raised one hand to press the sword, and said softly: "Please drop the sword, otherwise you will die." ”

In the face of such crazy ridicule, the big man thought that he had heard it wrong, and plucked his ears with his little thumb half the thickness of a wooden stick, which was the biggest joke he had heard in decades, who didn't know that the person riding in front of the horse was the king from the Saihan Kingdom, and the great prince who had been riding a horse and shooting arrows since he was a child, dancing with knives and guns, grew up, put on sharp armor, and was magnificent.

Before leaving, the king of the previous generation, who was like an old wood, dusted off his robe with his own hands, and gave the most indignant words, not breaking the vow of all nations and not returning. Have the subjects of their kingdom forgotten the humiliating scene when they were trampled in by the Iron Horse?

The woman who knelt on the ground prayed to keep her children here, and was finally dragged into the grass to die; the demented children who sat beside were lifted up and thrown into the well, and rockets were thrown into it, and who heard the miserable crying did not feel distressed; those scholars who once said that they had the ambition of a bear drew their swords and went to the battlefield, and wrote on the wall with blood: No one in the world has a husband, who buried the corpses that died on the ground, and the skeletons have ghosts in the night, and everyone knows that there are relatives here.

Li Shuishan was silent.

"Falling sword. ”

The big man in sharp armor raised his hand to cut it down, originally thinking that blood was splashed and his head fell to the ground, but the young man in front of him still did not move at all, raised his hand to clamp the long sword, and put it on the ground.

The surrounding soldiers were stunned, and they could be described as gods and men.