In a modest house, a young man in a coarse cloth shirt leans on a tabletop, reading a yellowed book silently as he looks.

"Everyone has a heart that can't bear people, the first king has a heart that can't bear people, and Si has a government that can't bear people......"

Teenagers read books very quickly, but sometimes slowly.

"Today, when people see that their children are about to enter the well, they all have a heart of compassion, not so they are handed over to the parents of their children, not so they want to be honored by their friends in the township party, and they are not evil. From the view of it, there is no compassion, and it is not human..."

Reading this, the young man was a little sad, turned his head to the right, two or three years ago, he was named Nanyan, and the old man who taught him to read and write sat here. Now, there's just one chair here, sitting around it.

Dong Nanyan, who looked gloomy, had no intention of reading any more, but he didn't close the book, turned around and pulled out a book from the bookshelf that had nowhere to enter.

Open this novel of Jianghu Zhiwei, in which the sword light and sword shadow, happy enmity and hatred, drinking when waking up, climbing high to write poems when drunk, ghosts and spirits, moving legends, teenagers all read it with relish, as if they were in it, and they were in a trance.

The sun was about to set, and the gradually dim sky made Dong Yanyan come back to his senses, looked at the half of the candle on the table, thought about it, and still didn't light it. Closing the book, the boy walked out of the house and jumped under the fruit tree in front of the court.

Hey.

A fruit.

The boy was satisfied and went out.

Walking into the blacksmith shop on the front street, after skillfully tidying up the house, Dong Nanyan knew that the owner of the shop had gone to listen to the book again, and after checking that the doors and windows were closed, he turned around and left.

On the potholed bluestone road, the thin young man who looked like he had not yet tied his hair, carrying a basket half a man high, wearing a pair of tattered cloth shoes that had been patched and mended, holding a harpoon with an iron head and wooden handle in his hand, shrunk his neck in the cold wind.

Strangled the strap on his shoulder, Dong Nanyan bent down and put the key under the big bucket at the door of the shop, got up and walked out of town.

It is not a big town from the south, it is not so much a town, but a large village that has gradually prospered in recent years.

At the beginning, the emperor of Xinnan was old and had children, and he was twins, two sons, which made the emperor very happy, and doted on the two princes in every way, and even the last dynasty had to hold the two princes, which made people feel ridiculous.

However, what is even more absurd is that before the emperor died, in order to take care of the two princes, he even issued an order that the Xinnan Kingdom be divided into two, and a Nanxin Kingdom was divided, so that the two princes would inherit the throne!

This is a pleasure for the prince to suffer the ministers, many ministers felt ridiculous, and jointly played to the emperor, saying that this matter is not okay, the people and money are not to be discussed, please Your Majesty think twice, but the emperor is furious.

"Who is the world of the southern kingdom of Xinnan?

Emperor Long Yan was furious, and the ministers who blocked the matter were either beheaded or demoted and exiled, so that no one dared to object. Needless to say, the degraded and exiled ministers, because they were disheartened and unwilling to stay in such an absurd country, chose to settle down in a barren land between two countries that were divided into two countries and had no one to govern, and named this place Linan.

In other words, most of the ordinary people in this town are after the official eunuchs of the "former dynasty".

However, the world is impermanent, and the soil in Linan, where the ministers have taken root, is barren, and food alone cannot sustain the daily diet of these ministers and their families. Leaving the south and the two countries, they are even more lazy to care about the life and death of these degraded and exiled people.

So I had to find another way out, it happened that there was a lake near this barren land, there were many fish in the lake, just enough for these people who were far away from home to make a living, after more than ten years of development, gradually this place became a village, people live by fishing, and do not want to contact with the outside world, self-sufficient, as if living in an isolated peach blossom paradise.

But no one thought that the good times would not last long, and more than ten years later, there would be a demon in the Peach Blossom Garden!

During a daily fishing trip into the lake, the villagers' boats sailed to the center of the lake and were about to collect their nets to catch fish, when suddenly two lantern-sized lights appeared in the lake.

Immediately afterward, a shadow swept through the water under the ship, with no end in sight.

After a series of "hissing" sounds, there was no news of the villagers fishing in the middle of the lake.

There are many retainers with ministers in Linan Village, and they are some practitioners with a solid foundation, holding a boat into the lake, wanting to find out, about half an hour's work, there is still a "hissing" sound, but this time the difference is that there are also miserable and frightened screams in the lake.

Standing on the edge of the lake, you can vaguely see a behemoth in the middle of the lake, twisting its body.

Since then, the people from the south village have never entered the lake to fish, but relying on food is really not enough to make a living, a few days later, the villagers are really hungry, people began to try to fish on the shore, cautiously, within a few weeks it is also peaceful, everyone thinks, maybe not go to the middle of the lake, you can be with the monster well water without the river water.

However, I didn't expect that it was just the calm before the storm, and the nightmare had just begun. In the days that followed, the villagers found that there were fewer and fewer fish in the lake, and they used to be able to catch a basket of fish in half a day, but now they can't catch half a basket. Moreover, now even the villagers who were fishing on the shore will disappear, and no one will find out how they disappeared, because everything that is found has disappeared with them!

Gradually, the sound of "hiss" could be heard not only by the lake, but even in the village, and the villagers wondered if the monster in the lake was no longer satisfied with being a couple and wanted to eat their plates. But there is no way, what can I do? Run? Where can these degraded and exiled people go? Go and fight with that demon beast? Isn't that a sheep in the mouth of a tiger!

Panic and helplessness enveloped the village.

In the past few years, the people in the village have gradually disappeared from fishing, and there is no way, if they don't fish, they can only starve to death, and no one will pay attention to the life and death of these "apostated" people.

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The autumn breeze from Nanzhen is a little cool, and the sky is not particularly dark, and the restaurant in the center of the town has a red lantern.

Dong Nanyan, who was wearing coarse cloth clothes, walked along the street, the street was crowded, rushing to the restaurant, not only the people in the town, but also foreign visitors, looking up at the three-story restaurant, under the reflection of the lantern, the three big characters on the plaque emitted red light.

Storytelling!

Dong Nanyan knows that today is the day of storytelling in the restaurant, no wonder there are so many people.

Twenty years ago, an immortal descended on Linan Village, eliminating demons and killing demons, saving the people from fire and water, and it is precisely because of this that many people came to visit the immortals, which strengthened the connection between the town and the outside world, drove the development of the town, and made the poor Linan Village become the current Linan Town.

In the days when the restaurant usually told stories, Dong Nanyan would find a wall, squat, pricked up his ears, and listened to the story of the immortals killing demons and demons.

Dong Nanyan has never been to a restaurant to hear about it, it is too expensive, and even the teenager who has a problem with eating does not dare to go in.

Moreover, what if you go in, I am afraid that if you go in by yourself, the people in the restaurant will be scattered as birds and beasts, thinking of the eyes that disgusted him, the young man sighed and continued to walk forward.

At the north exit of the town, the women of ordinary families in the town sit on benches, chatting about miscellaneous household matters, and children chase and fight. Seeing the thin young man with a big basket on his back, the women on the bench were a little embarrassed, and many women sighed,

"Poor thing"

"This is fishing again? It's a dark light, and it's not easy to walk. ”

"Oh, poor, you compassionate, why don't you see you hand him a lantern?"

"How dare I... You... Alas, don't talk about it, just pity this child, how old is this. ”

The women on the benches were gossiping, but none of them said anything to the thin boy.

"Dumb brother, are you going out to catch fish? I like small fish, can you give me one when you catch a fish?", a chubby little girl stood next to the thin boy with her head tilted back in the play.

Before Dong Nanyan could say anything, a young woman on the bench suddenly got up, a little panicked, "Shallow, how do you usually teach you! Come here!"

Seeing the little girl crying next to her being reprimanded by her mother, in the night, I saw Dong smile apologetically, nodded in the direction of the bench, expressed apology, and then turned around and strode out of town.

The woman who got up looked at the young man's behavior with some unbearable, but after repeated hesitation, she still did not open her mouth.

The young woman sighed secretly, not because she was hard-hearted, but because this fatherless and motherless little mute was really a disaster!

Since the immortals have eliminated demons, Linanzhen has gradually interacted with the outside world, and I don't know how ruthless the people from the outside world are now, and they can throw a baby who is waiting to be fed outside the town.

People's hearts are flesh and blood, not hard-hearted, how can anyone turn a blind eye to a living life? After the people in the town found out, Granny Liu at the entrance of the village adopted this abandoned baby.

never thought that only two or three years later, Granny Liu, who had always been strong, became seriously ill and died.

At the beginning, the people in the village didn't associate this incident with this abandoned baby, they just regarded it as Granny Liu's thin life, and she had lived a hard life alone for so many years, and now she is gone.

The wife of the Cui Mansion family is a kind-hearted person, and when she saw that after Granny Liu left, there was no one to take care of the child, so she took the child back to Cui Mansion.

But since taking this child back, there have been many strange things up and down the Cui Mansion, and some people said that the sky was full of immortals in their dreams, and they asked him why he didn't worship! When Cui Mansion sacrificed to the ancestors, the tablet fell down and cracked. The land in the whole house is dry, the trees and flowers are all dead, and the two wells at home cannot produce a drop of water.

In the end, three or four years later, the entire Cui Mansion was burned to the ground, and only this seven or eight-year-old child survived. Some people in the town said that that that day, lightning with the thickness of the wellhead fell from the sky and fell in Cui's mansion, and strangely, there was no thunder at all.

Now it's okay, as soon as it gets out, some people in the town think that this kid is a disaster and will affect the people around him, of course, they don't all think so, and some people think it's just an accident.

The old gentleman in the town who could see the acquaintance gave the child a divination, but at the beginning, the sky was thundering, dark clouds covered the sky, and the wind that swept the town was even mixed with the sound of roaring and roaring.

At this point, the townspeople thought that the child was a scourge that caused the innocent, and no one was willing to approach the child again. Some people even wanted to let this kid leave Linan Town, so as not to harm the people in the town.

In the end, the old man Dong, who had served as the official of Xinnan State, ignored everyone's obstruction, took the child's hand and led him home, and sure enough, three years later, the old man Dong also left, and the child lived to this day by himself, by eating some leftovers.

After walking out of the town, Dong Nanyan was a little depressed, but the young man quickly cheered up, and he had to hurry up and catch a few more fish in the lake today.

During the day, Dong Nanyan does not come to fish, there are many people who catch fish and play during the day, if they meet themselves, everyone will feel unlucky, and the young man does not want to cause trouble for others.

It is said that he is a disaster star, Dong Nanyan also admitted it, and also thought about leaving here and finding a place where there is no one, if he can live, he will live, if he can't live, then he will die, I just hope that in the next life, there will be no more disasters that affect others.

But the young man will never forget, Grandpa Dong held him dead before he died, the old man pointed at the child's head with one hand, and his voice was hoarse, "It's hard to say, Grandpa Dong is leaving, I have to take care of myself in the future, I have nothing to read more books, talk more, how good our little Fulu's voice is, don't think about doing stupid things, grandpa told you, I don't blame you, our little Fulu is not a disaster." ”

The old man stretched out his dry palm to wipe the child's tears, "Don't cry, what grandpa is telling you now, you must carefully write it down." ”

"Grandpa Fang Cai calculated for you, you still have ten years to live, little Fulu, in ten years, what will you look like? Ten years later, you should be a young man. ”

"Don't be afraid, little Fulu, grandpa told you, you must remember! After grandpa leaves, you must go to the blacksmith shop on the front street, beg him, or don't leave, you must walk around with the blacksmith uncle more, that is where you can change your life!"

Looking at the crying child in front of him, the old man was also in tears, "Don't cry, little Fulu, don't worry too much, even if you hit a wall in the blacksmith shop at that time, don't be discouraged, the world is so big, things are man-made, even if you can't change your life, you must cherish the time of ten years, don't do those stupid things." Silly child, how old are you, the beauty of the world, you haven't seen it, grandpa hopes you live well, not only grandpa, I believe in Granny Liu, Aunt Cui, I hope you can live well, don't be discouraged, little Fulu, what grandpa said to you, you must remember it. ”

"Grandpa left first, I hope that in the next life, I can meet Xiao Fulu. ”

The child burst into tears at the bedside, but there was no one to wipe his tears from him anymore