A familiar face appeared on the first street, he rolled up a wine glass in his hand, took a sip of the drink, and said, "It's really delicious, it's just a little too spicy." ”

"Is it spicy?"

"Spicy. ”

He woke up and had a beautiful dream beside the mulberry tree, and in this dream there was no one associated with him. Li Shuishan's torn throat was extremely dehydrated, and he opened his green shirt and breathed heavily.

A call broke his confused state, "You really are, I shouldn't let you go to that place, just such a teenager, when will you become a truly mature adult." ”

Li Shuishan laughed, and then turned over, "It's okay, thank you." ”

The storyteller in a long shirt walked up, and he was the first to turn his head and say, "It's you, kid, awake?"

"Wake up. ”

"Do you want to come with me on your way?"

"Where to go?"

"Go to the capital. Li Shuishan paused for a while, patted his knee, and said with a smile: "I have to wait for another day, I haven't played enough." ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, then wait one more day. Waiting for you under the mulberry tree. ”

"So it was decided. He flicked his sleeve and hurried away. The storyteller saw that the long sword inserted next to the mulberry tree was light and translucent, and it was a smooth and good sword, even if it was held in his hand, it made a crisp twitching sound. He picked it up and threw it under the tree.

There was a glimmer of light in his eyes, and it turned out that he was not blind.

.......

Li Shuishan stepped forward and stepped closer to the wine farming house he had come to earlier.

The drunk, ruddy-faced old drunkard was still on the table, putting down a wine glass, and from time to time a little wine was missing from the glass, and he fanned his fan, enjoying the drunkenness after quietly enjoying the drink.

From time to time, he drank the pot of good wine.

Li Shuishan laughed and walked in like this, still holding a tael of silver in his hand.

He threw it on the table and said, "I'll just sit here and drink a pot of wine with you, and I'll leave when I'm done." Can you drink a little more with me?"

The drunkard smiled: "It's easy to say, as long as you pay, the wine handed over is yours, as long as you are happy, I will be happy." ”

Li Shuishan poured him a glass and said to him: "The drunkard seniors really drank without regard for their image, and when they came last time, the little boy holding the wine jug was your child! Let him drink like this, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate." ”

"What's wrong?" he asked.

The drunkard drank the wine in his glass in one gulp and learned to walk with the drunken baby. Shaking from side to side from time to time, he put down the wine glass like this and said: "My baby must be able to drink, a restaurant civilization that can be traditional cannot be cut off in his hands." Drinking is about cultivating it from an early age. In the capital, there are so many children of restaurants, which one of them can't drink, and the drunk still can tell right from wrong. ”

Li Shuishan followed him and drank another cup.

Today's drink was very sweet, even a little different from the taste he had drunk a few times before.

Before the drink was finished, I heard a child walking next to me.

He called out respectfully, "Daddy." ”

As soon as the boy woke up from his sleep, he was woken up by a noise outside, put on the cloth shoes on his feet, and ran out to find his father. If asked where his mother was, he replied obediently, "Last year, a serious illness took me away. ”

Li Shuishan was a little sympathetic, but seeing the drunkard's helpless appearance, he poured another glass of wine, drank a glass in front of him, and left.

The drunkard looked at Li Shuishan's distant figure, he was still reluctant in his heart, and he was very sober in his heart, and said: "A young man, now he is about to become a person with a full heart of Xiaodao, the chosen one." ”

"Dad, what is Xiaodao's heart?" asked the drunkard's son.

He dragged his child and touched his head, "You don't understand, this little Taoist heart is a person who can't get drunk when he drinks." ”

The boy laughed.

Li Shuishan consciously forgot all the things in his heart, he wanted to rest in this place for a while, just to see the people who were still here.

Everyone was not as happy as he had when he first saw him, and something was missing in his memory.

Holding a bouquet of wildflowers on the side of the street, he walked into the pottery hall again.

It's very empty, but it doesn't have the appearance in the memory before, as if it is the appearance of people after taking tea and cooling.

After Jiang Lan left, this place was also empty. He couldn't tell the time difference, but he understood. This was the turning point in her fate, and when she was gone, he was left alone.

There was an old woman sitting at the door, and she beckoned Li Shuishan to go. He flicked his cuffs and walked over, and she struck him on the thigh with a club, and said, "You look like an unscrupulous boy who has nothing to do, and tell me, where have you done something bad?"

"Where have I done anything bad? I don't steal or rob, I don't have any bad intentions. The old woman glanced at him and said, "You have been looking at it for a long time, just looking at this dilapidated archway." You're a worker here, or you're looking for someone here. ”

Li Shuishan nodded and replied, "Old woman, what you said is right, I am the one who has worked here, I don't know how long it has been." ”

"Don't you even know how long you've been working?"

Li Shuishan shook his head.

The old woman looked surprised and said, "This year's Chu Shuiguo year should belong to the mulberry year, the summer has passed, and it has come to the autumn. I just don't know how this year is not cold, as if the summer has not been spent yet. ”

"Is it almost winter?" he felt a little bitter in his heart, but he didn't expect that after a good night's sleep, it would be autumn. This made him a little confused, maybe this was another time period he might have seen and not should have seen.

"I didn't expect that I would have this ability. ”

"What kind of ability you have, it's nonsense. The old woman retorted.

"You must have slept in a daze, the weather has been changing recently, and some of them do not conform to the laws of the four seasons set by my ancestors, but they make my old body a little uncomfortable. It seems that my days are numbered. ”

"How can there be more?" Li Shuishan blessed him with more years. However, the mulberry leaves under this tree still do not fall off, and the greenery everywhere is indeed a good season for some old people who don't like winter, but there are some reincarnations of the four seasons that are never forgotten, so it is a little puzzling.

They will even scold that such a season must be a natural and man-made disaster, but there is no bad news.

"Are you one of the older generation who guards the mulberry tree?" asked Li Shuishan.

The old woman hammered his head and said, "The mulberry tree is the god of protection in this place, and no one is allowed to leave anything to chance, whether it is a guest who comes here or a person who settles here." Didn't you forget the dead and wounded at that time? ”

"What dead and wounded?" he asked, and the old woman was silent.

Look at the huge mulberry tree, full of mulberries.

"Chu Shui Kingdom and Shui Zhou Kingdom war, we are migrated from afar, although we now belong to Chu Shui Kingdom, but the eternal heart is still in Shui Zhou Kingdom. ”

And in the past ten years, hundreds of years of smoke and rain have passed, he can't bear to hit this persistent old woman, most of the children are already familiar with the life of Chu Shuiguo, and they don't think about where their roots exist, he thinks about it carefully, the reality is like this.

It was precisely the comfortable life that wore out his memories of the belonging of blood. It can be seen that the old woman does not blame them, what they know is to grow up happily, and they don't have to be involved in war after war, endure those cruel pains, and fall in front of them one after another. Swords roared, and the armor that could be seen everywhere was pierced by the war warriors who rushed from afar.

"How much do you think they remember?" he saw a group of children running around in their parents' wide straw sandals, sneering at each other, remembering how happy and healthy these children were.

"They may not remember it, but it doesn't matter, people live for a lifetime, and it is inevitable that there will be gains and losses. ”

"Death and life are both perceived with heaven and earth, and we can only survive, not rebel. ”

"What will happen if I rebel?" asked Li Shuishan with wide eyes.

The old woman did not answer, because she could not answer either.

She has survived for such a long time, she has seen too much right and wrong, but she can't see through this life and death, every time she observes that people live for a lifetime, they need to experience a great disaster, either growing up or dying in the dark. Seeing those children carefree, when they lose their right to live, they feel that all this is the most worthless.

"I'm not a child anymore and can't answer your question. She turned to look back at the group of children playing, and smiled satisfactorily.

The pottery hall where she sat for many days has been good.

The sound of the carriage sounded, and a veiled swordsman came, she stopped in front of the two, and with a long sword on her back tightly, she gently lifted the veil, revealing a beautiful face, and asked, "This is Taiping Town?"

Li Shuishan glanced at the girl and said, "That's right, this place is Taiping Town. ”

"Taiping Town has finally arrived. Where's the legend that hundred-year-old mulberry tree?"

She saw the towering branches of the mulberry tree and drove away to the center of the town.

Li Shuishan glanced at the carriage, there was an old man sitting in the carriage, revealing a wrinkled face, and her eyes were unfathomable, like a pool of deep water.

Li Shuishan did not stay any longer, and followed the carriage to the old mulberry tree.

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In the new year, I wish you all the best and a happy New Year's Day!

The pace will gradually slow down in the future, so stay tuned.