preface

The hanging river, conceived by the sky and nurtured by the earth, stands in the nine heavens.

Human beings want to understand the original world, want to break through their own limits, and want to create an infinite future.

Human beings live on rivers and have crossed from farming civilization to cultivating immortals, and I don't know if it is lucky or unlucky.

Mankind fought over the river, and wars broke out in all kinds of countries, and countless people were displaced, and families were destroyed.

Hanging River, everything is because of it.

Chapter 1 Cloud Trace

The setting sun on the horizon burst out with a touch of afterglow, shining on the mist of the river, leaving the last rainbow.

The man in gray was pestled by the windowsill, looking at the river in the distance, and his heart was full of thoughts.

The small figure crept up, a small hand gently tugging at the corner of his clothes.

The man noticed something strange behind him, put the little fingers of both hands into his mouth, pulled the thumbs down the corners of his eyes, rolled his eyeballs up, and made a grimace.

"Wow, I'm a ghost! I'm here to get a kid! I'm going to take you away!"

The man suddenly turned around, trying to scare the child behind him.

"Hahaha, Daddy is a big fool, where are there ghosts in the world!"

The child let out a silver bell-like laugh, and the man picked her up with joy, "Xiaoyue, it's so late, you haven't slept yet, be careful that the evil wolf outside has taken you away!"

"With Daddy here, I'm not afraid, Daddy alone can beat away a group of vicious wolves!"

A touch of pride appeared on the child's innocent face, and the pink little fist waved in the air, as if hitting a vicious wolf.

The man looked at the child dotingly, "Xiaoyue, it's time to sleep, otherwise you won't grow tall." ”

The child pouted and said, "Daddy will tell the child a bedtime story, just one, and the child will fall asleep!"

The man came to the bed with the child in his arms, lifted the futon, wrapped the child in the quilt and said, "Then what story does Xiaoyue want to hear?"

The child stretched out his little hand, imitated the appearance of an adult, pestled his chin, thought for a while, pointed out the window and said, "Which river else do I want to hear?" ”

The man stroked the child's cheek and said, "If Xiaoyue wants to hear it, Daddy will tell you, say it a hundred times, a thousand times." ”

The child's eyes widened, staring at the man in front of him, waiting for him to speak slowly.

It is said that tens of thousands of years ago, dark clouds covered the sun, the earth shook the mountains, the sky began to collapse, and the human beings, birds and beasts on the ground ran and fled.

After a while, silence began to return to the heavens and the earth, and a column of water began to flow from the crack in the sky.

This is a legend that has been passed down in the streets, but who has seen it with their own eyes is unknown.

"Ahh ”

The child had heard this story many times, but every time, she listened so carefully that she always asked many childish questions.

"The sky is broken, and human beings have no choice but to move out of their homes and find another place. ”

In the beginning, it was still a small column of water, and every thousand years, the earth would shake once, and the crack would increase by a few points, and the water would widen by a few points.

With the river rushing down, there were countless spiritual treasures, and there was suddenly a little more spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

"How much is countless? Can Lingbao be eaten? There are too many, Xiaoyue can't finish eating. ”

"Hahaha, silly boy, Lingbao is not used for eating, you think about eating it all day long, be careful to eat it for you to be a little fat. Come, let Daddy pinch it, is Xiaoyue getting fat again. ”

"Don't, don't, don't pinch daddy. ”

The father and daughter were talking and laughing in the room, and outside the room, a thin figure was squatting under the windowsill and eating dry pancakes.

"Hmph, it's this boring story again... ”

The thin figure whispered.

"Who's it? who's outside!" the man looked up at the window, put away his smile, shouted angrily, and strode to the window.

Oops, found out!

The thin figure ran as soon as he pulled his legs, squeezed through the gap in the fence, and ran into the darkness.

The candle flame on the table flickered with the air current, and the man looked at the figure running away and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Daddy, what's wrong, what's going on?" a middle-aged woman asked worriedly, as she approached the man.

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay, it's just that kid Yunsu has come to steal food again. ”

The woman sighed and said: "Hey, it's no wonder which child has a hard life, his father and mother went early, and his temper is as stubborn as a cow, otherwise he would not have fallen into such a field if he went to Guan Da's house to be a scholar." ”

"Okay, okay, he also has his own ideas, when he goes to Master Guan's house, it is inevitable that there will be some ridicule, and he is more free by himself. Tomorrow a few more cakes will be baked and put on the stove, and he will come and fetch them when he is hungry. ”

The man glanced out the window, shook his head and sighed, removed the pole, and slowly closed the wooden window.

In the mountains and forests, Yun Su ran wildly, and his sleeves kept wiping the tears from his face.

"Wow... ”

Yun Su held on to the trunk of the tree, vomited violently, and ran excessively, causing his stomach to burst with pantothenic acid, and vomit out all the pancakes he ate in one go.

"I am not an orphan ... I am not an orphan ... I have a father and a mother... Daddy, where are you... ”

Yun Su cried sadly, wiped away tears from the back of his hand, his eyes were slightly red and swollen because of frequent crying, he raised his head, looked at the river under the moonlight in the distance, dragged his tired body, and walked in the direction of home.

The thin figure slowly stopped in front of a courtyard.

Yun Su stretched out his hand to push the crooked fence door, the sharp corners of the fence got stuck in the dirt, and no matter how hard the boy tried, he didn't push forward for half a minute.

"Even you bullied me!"

Yun Su screamed loudly at the fence door, raised his right foot, and kicked on the door.

"Squeak... Bang.... ”

The fence gate tugged at the fence wall on one side, and after holding on for a few seconds, it finally collapsed.

Yun Su didn't go to support the fence wall, hung his head, stepped on the fence door, and walked into the courtyard.

The courtyard of Yun Su's house is very large, a few points larger than the courtyard of the man's house before, but the courtyard at this moment is overgrown with weeds, and the blue brick pavement under his feet has been deeply embedded in the soil.

Yun Su squeezed sideways through the weeds that were two heads taller than him, and pushed open the hidden door.

Moonlight shimmered through the weeds and shone through the broken windows, illuminating the dark cabin.

Yun Su sat curled up at the head of the bed, looking down at the moonlight shining at his feet.

"Gollum... ”

There was a wail in his stomach, and Yun Su moved his body into the damp futon, arching his body and pressing his elbows against his stomach.

This kind of action will make him feel a little better.

The moonlight slowly moved upward, shining on the young man's face, and there were tears on his thin, sunken cheeks.

Feeling the warmth of the moonlight, the boy fell into a deep sleep, still muttering about his dreams, and all that responded to him was the rumbling of his stomach.

。。。。。。

The sound of rustling came from outside the house.

"Why are there still so many weeds in this place... There's not even a place to put your feet on!

The man in white shouted loudly as he squeezed through the grass.

Awakened by the shouting, Yun Su lifted the quilt and rushed to the door.

"Bang. ”

Yun Su planted his head in the man's abdomen, staggered back a few times, sat on the ground with a butt, rubbed his eyes, looked fixedly, and found that it was not the person he was expecting, and stood up in frustration.

"Ouch, you can't slow down if you're in a hurry!"

The man kneaded his stomach with one hand and said complainingly.

"Sir... ”

Yun Su seemed to be like a child who had been caught doing something wrong, lowering his head, rubbing the corners of his clothes with both hands, waiting for punishment.

The man looked at the thin child in front of him, and there was a little more helplessness in his eyes.

"I've brought you some food and some money for incense, candles, and paper. ”

As he spoke, the man picked up the things scattered on the ground, skimmed past Yun Su, walked straight to the table, and put the things on the table.

The man turned his head and said sharply, "Don't you come here to eat!"

Yun Su was scolded by the man, his body trembled involuntarily, walked quickly to the table, held the rice balls wrapped in lotus leaves with both hands, and looked at the man fixedly.

"Look at what I'm doing, I won't poison you, if you don't eat it, I'll take it!"

Yun Su tightened his hands and carefully peeled off the lotus leaves, the fragrance of the lotus leaves came to his face with the heat of the rice balls.

Yun Su took a bite, but before he could chew, he hurriedly swallowed it, and then took a second bite, and hot air erupted from his mouth and nostrils.

The man picked out the incense candle paper fire, walked to the side of the room, took out the fire fold around his waist, and gently blew a few breaths, the fire fold flickered a few times, and lit a small flame.

By the light of the flames, he stretched out his hand to illuminate the incense case in front of him.

There are two tablets on the incense table, one of which reads: Xian Yan Ming's mother and daughter's name linger in the heart of the lotus seat of the West, which is the tablet carved by Yun Su's father.

The other one reads: Xiankao Yun Gong admonishes the lotus seat of the monarch of the palace and the west, which is the tablet carved by the man for Yun Su's father.

The man took a deep breath, lit three incense sticks, pinched the incense with his middle finger and index finger, pressed the incense root with his thumb, and reached his chest, respectively between the chest, between the throat, and lightly touched his forehead, and after three bows, he inserted the incense into the square incense burner.

The man looked around at the incense case, which was only the cleanest and tidiest place in the house, looked at Yuntian's tablet, and said in a deep voice: "Yun Ji, you entrusted Su'er to me, but Su'er, who is stubborn by nature and does not obey discipline, I will take him back to the private school today, and he will definitely be strictly disciplined." I will not forget what you have entrusted me. ”

When Yun Su heard that he was going back to the private school again, he dropped the lotus leaf in his hand, turned around and ran out of the house.

The man looked at the figure of Yun Su rushing out of the door, his figure flickered, and disappeared in place.

Yun Su played with the weeds around him with both hands, and kept running out of the courtyard for a moment, just stepping on the fence door, a big hand behind him grabbed his belt and lifted him up.

"Su'er, listen to me, obediently go back to private school with me!"

Yun Su twisted his body desperately and shouted loudly: "Let go of me!" An Xiuzhu, you weird old man, let go of me! I don't want to go back to the private school with you, I'm going to find my father!"

As soon as An Xiuzhu heard Yun Su's thoughts, the blue tendons on his forehead flared up, his arm sank, and he threw Yun Su to the ground.

Yun Su was thrown seven meat and eight vegetarians, using all fours, turning over and wanting to run.

An Xiuzhu grabbed Yunsu's collar, stretched out his hand and slapped him in the face.

"Don't be delusional, Yun Yu has already left, and he will never come back! If you want him to rest in peace, you have to obey my arrangement!"

A slap print appeared on Yun Su's little face, and he turned his head to look at An Xiuzhu in front of him, the angry An Xiuzhu's eyes seemed to be spewing flames, and his rapid breathing made his chest rise and fall.

Yun Su was frightened and overwhelmed, tears squeezed into his eyes, and he flowed out, sobbing and said, "I just want to... Find my father ... ”

An Xiuzhu raised his hand, his fingers were closed, and he wanted to hit Yun Su again, Yun Su raised his arms and clamped them on his head, tightly protecting his head, and the sound of crying became louder and louder.

An Xiuzhu let go of the hand that was holding Yun Su's collar, and looked at the child in front of him, he couldn't bear to hit it a second time.

"If you want to find your father, you have to come with me!"

When Yun Su heard that he could find Yun Zhi, he stopped crying and choked, rubbed his cheek on his arm, got up, and asked with doubts and hope, "Really, where is my father? Is he okay?"

An Xiuzhu glanced at Yun Su, snorted coldly, put his hands behind his back, and walked out of the courtyard.

Yun Su rubbed his eyes, wiped his nose clean, and quietly followed behind An Xiuzhu.

"Don't you want to ask, how do you find your father?" An Xiuzhu said without replying.

"Sir said, as long as I go with you, you will tell me, if I tell me now, maybe I will run away... ”

"You're a little slippery, you're still young, but you're thoughtful. ”

An Xiuzhu smiled bitterly and shook his head, but the pace under his feet was slowly picking up.

At the beginning, Yun Su could still keep up with An Xiuzhu's pace, but An Xiuzhu was deliberately speeding up his pace.

Strange rocks stand in the mountains and forests with complex vegetation, and the bamboo is like walking on the ground, and it disappears without a trace of smoke.

Yun Su trotted out of breath and hurriedly shouted forward, "Sir, sir, wait for me, you slow down." ”

"I'm waiting for you at the private school... ”

The ethereal sound of An Xiuzhu's reverberated in the mountains and forests.