After March, winter goes to spring, and spring blooms.

All things enter the season of reproduction, the aquatic plants gradually become abundant, the golden scales that feed in the mud at the bottom of the water eat the soft insects in the mud, and chew a few green aquatic plants, just want to swim out of the aquatic grass bushes and swim with the fish, but a big net suddenly casts down.

"Sa-"

At this time, it had not yet passed the mystery of the beast, and its mind was still in chaos, and it could not break free.

So, in this way, it became the fisherman's "prisoner" for the second time.

It was the swarthy middle-aged man who caught it on the boat.

After hauling the live fish to be slaughtered onto the boat, he handed over the rest to his daughter and went back to sleep in the cabin.

Miss Ah Xiu shook her head and sighed, there was really no way to take her father.

She picked up the sharp fish-killing knife again, slaughtered the fish for the guests who came to buy the fish, she waved the knife in her hand, scraped the scales and dirty the fish, killed them one by one, and dealt with them, then took a straw rope and threaded the fish's cheeks, carried it and handed it to the guest, and then collected the money.

Miss Ah Xiu was busy all afternoon.

At dusk, the smoke of every household rises, and the people who buy fish go home to cook, and Miss Axiu is idle all at once.

At this time, there were no more than four live fish in the fish tank.

The golden scales were lucky enough to be among the four live fish.

Miss Ah Xiu stared at them and said, "Uncle Yuan wants one, Aunt Li wants two, and there is still one live fish left, today, that monk is estimated to have no money, so I will do something good for him and release you!"

It's a pity that as soon as the words fell, another guest came to the door, and she was afraid that she would not be able to do this good deed.

The person who came was Aunt Xu from the town, who often came to her to buy fish.

Aunt Xu said: "Ah Xiu, give my aunt a carp, and I will hurry home to cook!"

In the fish tank, there is just the carp "Golden Scale".

When Miss Ah Xiu heard this, she instinctively went to fish, reached into the fish tank, and grabbed the golden scales in the water, and the golden scales just twisted the body of the fish in horror and swung the tail of the fish, but she couldn't get rid of Miss A Xiu's firm hands.

It's just that Miss Ah Xiu just grabbed it, but suddenly let go of it.

She straightened her waist, shook the water in her hand, wiped it dry with a cloth, and said to Aunt Xu: "Auntie, I'm really sorry, I went to the fish tank to take a look, there are only three left, it is the live fish that Uncle Yuan and the Li family's aunt wanted, it has been set a long time ago, there is really none, I'm really sorry, otherwise, you go to Li Gui'er next door to take a look! ”

When Aunt Xu heard this, she sighed and said, "Alas, I knew that I would have come earlier, but now I have no choice but to go to his house to buy it." ”

Aunt Xu said, lowered her voice, and said: "But let me tell you, that Li Gui'er will play tricks, two catties of fish can be sold as three catties, it is not authentic at all, if my aunt doesn't see that you really don't have it, I don't want to buy it at his house." ”

When Miss Axiu heard this, she looked at the four live fish in the fish tank with a weak heart, and was a little unbearable, but finally decided not to sell it to Aunt Xu, and just said: "Aunt Xu is not afraid, you bought it from him, come to me to get on the scale, he wants you to lose a few catties and a few taels, and we will go to him on the spot." ”

Aunt Xu listened to Miss Axiu's words, carrying a vegetable basket in one hand, but covering her mouth with the other.

She said: "Bah, bah, if my aunt really does this, won't it hurt you, Ah Xiu, you are still young, you don't understand anything, you neighbors are doing the same business, and they are close, so you have to avoid suspicion, if I really come to you to make him look foreign, you two will have to grudge, and you will have to fight in the future, and your aunt can't hurt you." ”

As she spoke, Aunt Xu carried the vegetable basket, said goodbye to Miss Axiu, and went to Li Gui'er to buy fish.

Miss Ah Xiu looked at Aunt Xu who was walking away, and then she breathed a sigh of relief, held her little face that was flushed because of lying, patted her little heart that was pounding, and put her mind at ease.

She is too good at lying, and she is often seen as soon as she lies.

Fortunately, this time, Aunt Xu believed her.

Miss Ah Xiu came to the fish tank again, fished out the carp in the tank, and grabbed it in her hand.

Because of the mystery of birds and beasts, the golden scales that originally had dazzling brilliance were only blue and white at the moment, and they were very ordinary, and Miss Axiu grabbed its fat carp in her hand, and watched it swing its tail energetically, and she was very happy.

It's just that when it swung its fishtail, it shook Miss Axiu's face, and Miss Axiu suddenly frowned, straightened her arm, lifted it away, and twitched her little nose, but she was still very happy.

When Ah Xiu girl releases live fish, she likes to talk to them, and this time is no exception.

Like an old hen, she began to babble again.

She said to it: "Why do you say that monk is so strange, why did he catch the fish of our family and release them, Li Gui'er also has a lot of fish in his family, why do you want to come to my house, you say, will he like me?"

The golden scale didn't understand anything, and opened the fish's mouth with difficulty, and without water, it was going to die.

Miss Ah Xiu talked to herself, smiled a little shyly, and said, "Oh, people are monks, how can I have such shameless thoughts, besides, I am pitch black, where will there be men who like it." ”

Miss Ah Xiu looked at her arm, because she was on the river all the year round, and she was illuminated by the sun, which did look a little dark.

The golden scales were still buzzing with the fish's mouth, and it was dying.

Miss Ah Xiu didn't know the pain of the fish out of the water, and continued: "I gave him a pair of cloth shoes the day before yesterday, because the straw sandals on his feet are really too broken, but I seem to be making a little small, a little squeezed feet, really, I should have asked him how big his feet are, you say, should I make him another pair." ”

The golden scale no longer buzzed into the fish's mouth this time, but swung its body desperately, and without water, it was really dying.

It doesn't want to know if Miss Ah Xiu still makes cloth shoes, it only cares about when she can get back into the water.

Miss Ah Xiu watched the golden scales swing so violently, and then realized that the fish had to be in the water, otherwise they would die.

Miss Ah Xiu hurriedly grabbed it, came to the side of the boat, and gently lowered it into the water.

As soon as Miss Axiu's hand loosened slightly, Golden Scale broke free from Miss Axiu's shackles and dived into the deep water, escaping from the cage and returning to the great river.

The golden scales dived into the deep water, and they did not dare to come out again.

With the lessons of the first two times, this ignorant fish that is easy to be caught by people has finally learned to be smarter and very vigilant.

This month, its sanity finally began to slowly recover, and it gradually got out of the mystery of beasts.

The scales on its body gradually turned from blue-white to golden-red, and it gradually understood who it was and where it came from, it came from Yanyu Lake, and it was the overlord of the eight-hundred-mile water system.

Its "spitting arrow" spell has also been mastered again, making it invincible, not afraid of big fish and predators, not afraid of fishermen and water birds.

It remembered that after a long wait, it had finally waited for the opportunity to test the Golden Scales, and in a few days, it could go to the Golden Scale Mountain in Smoke and Rain City to gamble on its immortal fate.

It was at this time that Golden Scale met Miss Ah Xiu for the third time.

At that time, it closed its eyes under the deep waters of the Mingluo River, because it had just recovered, and it needed to readjust to its body, which had become more than 100 times stronger.

As it closed its eyes, it sensed that someone had fallen overboard.

For people who fall into the water, it has always been able to save it.

The golden scales woke up from the state of closing their eyes and recuperating, and came out of the deep water to the surface of the Mingluo River.

The bright moon was covered by dark clouds, and the surface of the river was a heavy black, and you couldn't see your fingers.

But the eyes of the golden scales can break through the deep darkness and see the people who have fallen into the water.

It swung its tail and swam quickly, and soon it saw the man who had fallen into the water.

That's Ah Xiu girl.

She fell into the water, neither shouting nor struggling, but letting the river flood her head and let herself sink into the water.

Miss Ah Xiu grew up on a fishing boat by the river, how could she not be able to swim? Even if she fell into the water, she had the ability to swim back to shore by herself.

However, now she has no intention of returning to the shore, so she sinks straight down.

The golden scales came to her side and wanted to drag her ashore, she opened her eyes in the water, and saw that it was a tail of dazzling scales, and knew that it was an extraordinary thing, and it was the legendary golden scales that would save people in the Mingluo River.

It's just that, in the face of its rescue, Miss Ah Xiu stubbornly shook her head and pushed it away.

She's not overboard, she's looking for death.

The golden scales can save a person who falls into the water, but it can't save the person who insists on seeking death.

After countless attempts to pull her back to the shore and being opened by her countless times, the golden scale finally did not continue to rescue, but let Miss Ah Xiu sink into the deep and dark Mingluo River like a pebble.

Miss Ah Xiu saw that Jin Liang no longer saved her, but she suddenly laughed, laughing like a child.

It's just that when she opened her mouth, the river water poured in, and she was very uncomfortable, but she still smiled.

Eventually, she sank to the bottom of the river, convulsed a little at first, then fell silent and never moved again.

Miss Ah Xiu died like this.

A wisp of fragrant soul drifted away.

Although the golden scale has opened his mind, unlike people, he does not know why this kind-hearted girl wants to seek death in such a dignified manner, and it does not know why she is about to die and still laughs so happily.

It stared at Miss Axiu's corpse for a long time, but still couldn't come up with an answer.

Under the sinking bottom of the river, the corpse of Miss Axiu rose and fell in the surging river, and the three souls and six spirits began to go out of the body, dissipating between heaven and earth, and turning into nothingness.

The scene of the soul dissipating is extremely beautiful, let alone a beautiful soul dissipating.

The blue light that glows when the soul dissipates illuminates the darkness at the bottom of the river, like a blue light for the fish, like a firefly.

The blue light exists for a short time, and after a while, it dims one by one and returns to darkness.

When the last bit of blue light was about to dissipate, the golden scales swam over, took the blue light in her mouth, and placed it in her belly to warm up, so that between heaven and earth, there was still her last trace.

Golden Scale didn't want Miss Axiu's body to be eaten by the fish, so he dragged her body back to the shore, if her father saw it, he would definitely bury her properly, although it was not human, but knew that they had the custom of burying her.

After doing all this, the golden scales swam back into the deep water, and after a while, they rushed to the Yanyu Lake in Yanyu City, preparing to participate in the Golden Scale Test of the Immortal Court, and see how good their immortal fate is?

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