The weather in the mountains in summer is always changeable, and before Guo Xiaodao and Bai Xiaosheng could say a word in the house, they heard the rolling thunder and drums outside the house, and the thunder was very close, and it seemed that the whole house was jumping, and then the heavy rain poured down.

"It's raining so hard. Guo Xiaodao lifted the thatched mat that covered the window, looked at the lightning and thunder outside, and palpitated: "The thunder just now was terrible, it was like an explosion in my ears, I remember that Aunt Liu's cow was pregnant, don't be scared of miscarriage." ”

"You're idle. Bai Xiaosheng saw that it was hopeless to go out to get water in this weather, so he simply stretched the bowl out of the window to catch the rain: "Just now, I saw that the village was busy driving the livestock raised by the family to the house." ”

Guo Xiaodao shrugged: "You see that my family is like this, I don't even have a decent pot, where can I have the money to raise livestock in captivity? If I had money, I would have gone to the rivers and lakes a long time ago." ”

Sometimes, poverty limits not only imagination, but also action.

The rain outside was very powerful, and the bowl that Bai Xiaosheng stretched out took a bowl of rain after a while, but Bai Xiaosheng didn't drink it, but went back to the room and took out a strangely shaped cylinder made of bamboo, this cylinder was divided into two sections, one up, one up, and the bamboo tube was placed on the table and made a dull sound, obviously it was not hollow inside.

Bai Xiaosheng swung the bowl, confirmed that there were no visible impurities, and poured the rainwater in the bowl into the bamboo tube above, and after a while, he saw the clear water droplets dripping from the bamboo tube above and falling into the bamboo tube below.

"It's a water purification appliance. Seeing Guo Xiaodao lying on the table staring at the bamboo tube with shining eyes, Bai Xiaosheng explained: "Those who run the rivers and lakes can't avoid sleeping in the wilderness, drinking unclean water will get sick and diarrhea, and if you encounter the enemy, it will affect your personal state, and if you don't do it, you will be in danger of dying." ”

Guo Xiaodao's eyes lit up when he listened to Bai Xiaosheng's popular science: "Sure enough, the people in the rivers and lakes are cool, and they are so particular about drinking water." ”

Bai Xiaosheng was a little amused when he heard this: "Don't you think it's tiring to live like this? You have to be careful to even drink a thatched hut on the water......

"But this is the rivers and lakes. Before Bai Xiaosheng finished speaking, Guo Xiaodao looked excited: "You come and go, the rivers and lakes are vendettas, the road is uneven and draws a sword to help, chivalrous righteousness, grievances and grievances, swords and swords, these are all part of the rivers and lakes, and I have long been prepared in my heart as a future hero." ”

Bai Xiaosheng frowned, the rivers and lakes that the kid in front of him said were too idealistic, as a person who grew up watching the black history of the rivers and lakes in Baijia Village, Bai Xiaosheng felt that he needed to remind Guo Xiaodao in front of him who was caught in his delusions: "If you don't do it, you will die." ”

"It's just a small life. Guo Xiaodao waved his hand disdainfully: "This hero has long put life and death out of the way, if he dies unfortunately, it is fate, and it is not in vain to go through this trip to the rivers and lakes." ”

"Oh?

A thunderclap roared in the sky, and clouds, rain and lightning intertwined in the sky, and black and white dragons and snakes continued to roll in the clouds, making the night look particularly eerie.

There was nothing else in the main hall except for tables, chairs, benches and an oil lamp, the air was filled with a stuffy and oppressive atmosphere before the rain, and finally this rain fell, in order to ventilate the doors and windows of the main hall were open, lightning flashed in the sky from time to time, constantly creating only black and white moments, a figure suddenly appeared between the electric light and flint, and the low tone frightened Bai Xiaosheng and Guo Xiaodao, take a closer look......

"Isn't this the shopkeeper?" Bai Xiaosheng said: "Could it be that we were too noisy to wake you up?"

The shopkeeper walked straight to Guo Xiaodao from the corner of the room, still with that kind and smiling face: "What you just said is true?

Guo Xiaodao crossed his waist and straightened his chest: "Of course, this hero never tells lies." ”

As soon as the words fell, Guo Xiaodao felt that his stomach was like being kicked by a cow, and he almost didn't vomit out the meal he ate at night, but before he could spit it out, Guo Xiaodao immediately felt his neck tight, and the whole person was suspended in the air, and his neck was grabbed by a big hand, and he couldn't breathe for a while.

Guo Xiaodao instinctively hugged the arm that grabbed his neck and wanted to escape from this hand, the touch transmitted from the palm of his hand This arm was not half the thickness of his uncle's arm, but it was like steel cast iron, no matter how hard Guo Xiaodao tossed and forced, he couldn't shake this arm.

"Shopkeeper!" Seeing this, Bai Xiaosheng hurriedly went up and pressed the hand of his shopkeeper who was stuck in Guo Xiaodao's neck: "What are you going to do in the shopkeeper? ”

The shopkeeper didn't care: "Child, are there still few children on the rivers and lakes?

The so-called three taboos on the rivers and lakes are recognized by the guests on the rivers and lakes, one of which is not to provoke the elderly, the crippled and the children for no reason, not only the matter of morality and morality, many unpopular forces on the rivers and lakes are to train these people to spy on the strength of the target for them, and those old people, cripples and children are not fuel-efficient lamps, maybe you stand in front of a cute child who looks at you with watery eyes and has more blood in his hands than you.

"What do you think Jianghu is?" the shopkeeper leaned into Guo Xiaodao's ear: "Jianghu is a big dye vat where you live and die, since you are ready to die a long time ago, then please die now." ”

Feeling the palm at the throat gradually retracted, the shopkeeper's face was still a kind and smiling face, during the day, this expression won the favor of many villagers, including Guo Xiaodao, but at this moment, this face of a good old man who is smiling no matter how you look at it gives Guo Xiaodao a cold and ruthless feeling, Guo Xiaodao read a message from this face: he is serious!

Sensing the cold and cruel truth behind this smiling face, Guo Xiaodao panicked and wanted to open his mouth to shout for help, but before the voice came out, he was forcibly suffocated by the hand that was stuck in his neck: "I can't ask you to shout out, otherwise things will be in trouble, can I ask you not to struggle and die obediently?"

Guo Xiaodao's small face turned purple, and the severe lack of blood supply to the brain caused Guo Xiaodao's eyes to turn black for a while, and the lack of breathing made Guo Xiaodao feel as if a giant stone slab was pressing on his chest, and a heart was almost about to burst out.

Helpless, Guo Xiaodao could only look at Bai Xiaosheng, who was chatting with him just now, hoping that Bai Xiaosheng could save himself, but what made Guo Xiaodao desperate was that Bai Xiaosheng did not stop Fang Cai's anxious appearance, but had a thoughtful expression.

It was only at this time that Guo Xiaodao reacted in despair - these two people are in a gang.

Guo Xiaodao couldn't hold it anymore, the pain of suffocation and the lack of blood supply to the brain, Guo Xiaodao finally lost consciousness in front of him.

Seeing that Guo Xiaodao was unconscious, the shopkeeper let go of the hand holding Guo Xiaodao, touched Guo Xiaodao's pulse, rolled Guo Xiaodao's eyelids again, and then nodded: "It's really faint." Then he turned to the inner room and shouted, "You can come out." ”

In the inner room, Lao Guo walked out of the room with a complicated face.