Volume 1 There are Fish in the North Chapter 2 There are demons in the mountains and rivers, and aging
The man in green shirt and the little girl went upstairs, just in time to meet Li Fuyao who had just finished speaking, and now it was time to drink and moisten his throat, so when he saw the man and the little girl in green shirt at the table by the window, Li Fuyao was a little surprised.
Baiyu Town is such a small place, it is not big, so Li Fuyao, a resident of this town, has known almost all of them many years ago, and in the past few years since the restaurant told the story, there are only a few drinkers who come and go, even if there are a few more occasionally, but they are all people in the town, but now, the two people in front of him have indeed never seen it.
The man in green shirt sat by the window, looking at the center of the lobby, just in time to meet Li Fuyao's sight, the two looked at each other, the man in green shirt smiled and nodded, it was regarded as a greeting, Li Fuyao nodded slightly in return, no longer entangled, and continued to talk about the next story.
Li Fuyao has been telling stories in the restaurant for several years, and he doesn't know how many stories he has told, and generally other storytellers will inevitably start to tell some old stories that have already been told, but here in Li Fuyao, the stories are different every day, so naturally they all like to listen to him.
After drinking, Li Fuyao began to tell the next story again, this story is about the story of those mountain and river monks, but it is not blindly fighting and killing, but there are many infatuated bridges, after a story is finished, the guests in the restaurant are a little sad, those girls are red eyes, even the little girl who just went upstairs has some other emotions.
Li Fuyao, who had told several stories in a row, no longer spoke, just stood up and signaled that he would be here today, and then took off his slightly wide green shirt and handed it to the little guy who had been waiting beside him, and then turned around, thinking about going to the restaurant shopkeeper to get his own money today, but before he could take a few steps, he was stopped by the man in green shirt opening his mouth.
"Little gentleman stays. β
Li Fuyao was a little surprised, but his expression was still flat, and he was not in a hurry to leave, and after coming to the table and sitting down, the man in the green shirt said with a smile: "Mr. Xiao's books just now are very interesting, different from the clichΓ©s of ordinary storytellers in the market, and they don't seem boring at all." There are still a lot of stories in this, and I haven't even heard them before. β
Li Fuyao's expression was flat, and he said calmly: "It's just a mixed meal, and the story in it can't be taken seriously." β
Perhaps a little surprised by the young man's calmness, the man in the green shirt was a little surprised, he was silent for a moment, and did not speak, but Li Fuyao quickly asked: "Mr. looks like a local, why did he come to Whitefish Town?"
The man in the green shirt asked calmly, "Mr. Xiao is from the county government?"
The sentence has not yet been fully spoken, but both parties already know the meaning of the words, and the man in the green shirt is telling Li Fuyao that since you are not from the county government, what qualifications do you have to ask him what he is doing here.
Li Fuyao was silent for a long time, just looking down at the dirt on the wooden table that had been left over the years and could not be wiped clean no matter how much he wiped it. He had been in this town for more than ten years, and he had never met such an interesting person.
The little girl didn't look at Li Fuyao, but just looked at the scenery outside the window.
The man in the green shirt didn't intend to delve into this issue, and quickly asked, "Mr. Xiao is a local, so he should naturally know, is there anything abnormal in Whitefish Town now?"
Li Fuyao suddenly smiled, and he raised his head to look at the man in green shirts.
There was a faint mockery in his eyes.
The man in the green shirt soon knew why, he had asked rhetorically just now, and now the young man was obviously reminding him that he was not qualified to ask him about the things in Whitefish Town.
The man in the green shirt suddenly sighed, he hadn't seen such an interesting teenager for a long time.
A young man who can compete with him is rare in the school palace, and meeting one in this poor country can arouse his interest even more.
The man in the green shirt was silent for a moment, and then asked with a smile: "Since Mr. Xiao is a storyteller, naturally he talks about mountain spirits and wild monsters all day long, and he talks about mountain and river monks, but have you really seen it?"
At the mention of this, the young man's brows frowned slightly, but he quickly calmed down, and he said with a smile: "If you have read the books of sages, it is not difficult to know the principles in the books of sages, but have you really seen those sages who wrote books of sages?"
Until now, the boy still has no concessions.
The man in the green shirt frowned, "Mr. Xiao's temper is really not very good, it is okay in such a small place, but if you walk out of this place, your temper needs to be changed." β
Li Fuyao shook his head calmly, "Don't worry about Mr. Lao." β
The man in the green shirt laughed and quickly returned to the topic, "Before coming here, there is naturally something important to do, if it can't be solved, I'm afraid it will affect the people of this town, so I also ask Mr. Xiao to tell the truth if there is anything abnormal in the town." β
Li Fuyao was puzzled: "This matter is so big that it can affect the people of this town?"
The man in the green shirt didn't speak, just flicked his sleeves slightly, and the bowl of tea originally placed on the wooden table was strangely suspended in the air, not far from the wooden table, about half a finger away, so except for Li Fuyao's close observation, the rest of the people really didn't see anything unusual.
But in this regard, Li Fuyao did not show any frightened look, but there was some light in his eyes, "Monk Shanhe?"
The man in the green shirt opposite nodded slowly after a brief distraction.
He quickly asked, "Confucianism or Taoism?"
Li Fuyao didn't show a surprised look, but the man in the green shirt looked at Li Fuyao with some surprise.
Li Fuyao said calmly: "To be honest, I thought about going to see this mountain and river for a long time, I know that the Great Zhou is very small, but the mountains and rivers are very large, so I have long had the desire to travel through the mountains and rivers, and I know that it is impossible for you mountain and river monks to come to this Great Zhou, so I want to go out of the Great Zhou to see you, but the reason why I haven't been in a hurry to leave all these years is simple, and it is only in the ...... Saving. β
When it comes to traveling through mountains and rivers, it is enough to open your mouth, but in the end, you need a lot of silver to go out.
The man in the green shirt didn't open his mouth in a hurry, but the little girl who hadn't opened his mouth all the time on the side chuckled: "Even if you save enough money, you won't be able to go far." β
The little girl didn't say in detail why, and Li Fuyao didn't ask.
The man in the green shirt went straight to the point, did not hide it, and explained the purpose of this trip.
Li Fuyao frowned and asked softly, "Sir, did you mean that a snake demon came to Whitefish Town?"
The man in the green shirt smiled slowly, "A snake demon in the green silk realm, the realm is not very high, but how to look at it, it is not difficult to kill the people in such a small town." β
Li Fuyao's face began to become a little ugly, he was silent for a long time, and then said in a low voice: "There has been an autumn rain for a long time, according to the past days, there should not be such a rain, if there is anything else abnormal in addition, I really can't think of it." β
The man in the green shirt nodded calmly, and then stopped asking, after all, it was useless to talk more about this matter with such an interesting young man, but looking at this young man, he really wanted to talk to him about something else.
"What do you know about mountains and rivers?"
Li Fuyao stared at the man in green shirts, thought for a long time, and then slowly spoke: "For example, there are three sects in this mountain and river, and the monks of the three sects are the actual masters of this mountain and river, and I also know that the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty is all in the territory of Yanling, and I also know that there is a school palace in Yanling, which is a disciple of Confucianism, and Mr. ...... It seems to have come from that place. β
The man in the green shirt smiled calmly: "I would like to know why you know so much. β
Li Fuyao laughed at himself, "Mr. said that I was a local, but what he said was not true, in fact, I am not a local." β
"Mr. was born in the Yanling School Palace, and naturally knows that every year in Yanling there will be a lot of places that can enter the School Palace, but this so-called a lot is still too few for those nobles in Luoyang City, so when they knew that there would be a child who would definitely occupy such a place, they thought about how to snatch back that place, especially when they knew that the child's background was really not worth mentioning, so they gave birth to other thoughts. β
Li Fuyao smiled slowly: "Sir, imagine what you would do if it were you?"
The man in the green shirt shook his head, about what those nobles in Luoyang City do every year, in fact, the school palace is not unaware, but after so many years of ignorance, in addition to the fact that Luoyang City is really complicated, there is also the fact that the children who are sent to the school palace every year are actually not much different in talent, so who enters the school palace in the end, the school palace actually doesn't care much. It's just that meeting one here is not much of an accident.
"So you were sent to such a remote place, so that you had the place on you. β
The man in the green shirt looked at Li Fuyao calmly.
"They still haven't killed them all, but they are also afraid that I will appear in Luoyang City again, although this matter is not a big matter, but after all, it involves face, so they sent me to such a remote place, hoping that a child of a few years old will fend for himself. β
Li Fuyao looked up at the man in green shirt and said with a smile: "It's a pity that I'm still alive." β
The man in the green shirt looked at this young man, who was different from the steady young man of ordinary people, and said in a slightly cold voice: "So when you saw me today, you wanted to beg me to take you into the palace and lead you into the cultivation road, and then I hoped to take revenge." β
Li Fuyao spread out his hands, "It was by accident that I saw Mr., but since I saw him, Mr. didn't plan to take a look?"
When he said it, he naturally wanted the man in the green shirt to see if he had such a cultivation qualification.
So he spread his hands.
The man in the green shirt frowned, admitting that the short story the boy had told earlier had piqued his interest in him.
He was silent for a moment, and finally put his hand on Li Fuyao's arm, and after a while, it really seemed as if something was wandering in his meridians, especially on his arm, there was an obvious protrusion in the meridians.
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There was a long silence.
The man in green shirt said softly: "My name is Yan Yu." β
Then he asked, "What's your name?"
"Li Fuyao. β
"Would you like to go to the Academy Palace with me?"
"No. β