Chapter 3 Difficult to Choose
"Got it! Got it!"
The girl stood by the river and clapped her hands. There were seven or eight teenagers in the river, some seventeen, eighteen or nineteen, others thirteen or fourteen. They were playing shirtless in the river, and one of them, about eighteen years old, was holding a big white fish and smiling at the girl.
The girl was dressed in a gray short dress, with a wooden hairpin pinned to her head, long hair reaching her waist, and a pair of eyes on her melon seed face that were watery, and she smiled and showed her neat white teeth, and there was a cute little tiger tooth on both sides. Although the girl's clothes were rough, it still couldn't hide her snow-white skin and beautiful face.
The young man with the big fish in his hands said to the girl on the riverbank, "I will throw the fish to you, and you will catch it." ”
The girl said, "I know, Brother Li Yun, throw it to me." ”
"Then you have to catch it steadily!" said the young man named Li Yun, raising his hands and throwing them towards the riverbank, and the girl reached out to take them. I didn't know that the boy was just pretending to throw it, but the fish was still in the boy's hand. The girl was teased by him, so she looked at the young man angrily and said, "You, you trick me!"
"Hahahaha!" the boys in the river laughed.
The girl said again: "Brother Li Yun, give me the fish quickly!"
Li Yun smiled and said, "Sister Moxue, you can ask for fish, but you have to come down and get it yourself!"
The girl named Mo Xue said: "Where am I getting better, give it to me, give it to me!"
Li Yun said again: "Don't give it, unless you come down!"
"That's it, come down. The others followed suit, causing passers-by to stop and watch the excitement, and Mo Xue's face immediately turned red and white.
Mo Xue said to Li Yun again: "Give it to me quickly!"
"Don't give it!"
"To give or not to give?"
"I won't give it!"
"Don't give it!" Mo Xue said, picking up a bamboo pole from the side and hitting Li Yun. However, she didn't really hit Li Yun, but hit the water in the river hard, so that the river was in chaos.
"If you don't give it, if you don't give it!" Mo Xue shouted as she hit the water.
The teenagers were in a mess, and the young man named Li Yun couldn't hold the fish in his hand, so the big fish ran away. Li Yun shouted, "The fish has run away, the fish has run away!" As he spoke, he suddenly grabbed the bamboo pole with one hand and pulled Mo Xue into the water. Mo Xue was also shocked, and the whole person plopped into the water, drank two sips of water directly, and instantly became a soup chicken. Seeing Mo Xue embarrassed in the water, the teenagers laughed one after another. As soon as Mo Xue didn't get angry, she held water in her hands and poured it on Li Yun, so that Mo Xue and the teenagers actually had a water fight, and they were very happy.
Just as they were fighting hotly, there was a loud shout from the shore: "If you don't come up yet, what kind of body will it be!" This voice was interrupted, and the river was instantly quiet, and Mo Xue lowered her head and said nothing. A dark-skinned middle-aged man on the shore was staring at Mo Xue, and there was a middle-aged man with yellowish skin next to him. The yellow-skinned man said: "Oh, brother, isn't it normal for children to play around, not to mention that my Yun'er and your Xue'er have played since childhood, so don't be angry." The dark-skinned man said: "Brother Li, after all, there is a difference between men and women, a little girl fights with a group of shirtless men, what does it look like, don't you say?"
"Yes, yes, you're right!" the yellow-skinned man had to smile perfunctorily.
"Not yet!"
Mo Xue came up to the shore, came to the middle-aged man, lowered her head and said, "Dad." ”
"Come back with me!"
Mo Xue was about to leave, and Li Yun in the river said, "Uncle Mo, Sister Xue'er, you guys will wait." As he spoke, he drilled into the water, and after a while he came out of the water, holding a big fish in his hand, and then went ashore, came to Mo Xue, and said, "Give." Mo Xue's face turned red, she looked at her father, and her father said, "If someone gives it to you, you will take it!" Mo Xue took it with both hands, lowered her head and ran away. Li Yun came to the yellow-skinned man and shouted, "Dad." This person is Li Yun's father, and he said to Mo Xue's father: "Children, don't care, but our family Yun'er likes your family Xue'er very much, isn't it ......" He was about to say more, Mo Xue's father said: "Let's talk about this later." With that, he left.
"This, what's going on?" Li Yun's father stood in place and was stunned, watching Mo Xue's father walk away.
The girl returned home with the fish in her arms, and her father came back as well. This girl's name is Mo Xue, and her father is naturally Mo Hai back then. It has been eight years since Mo Xue met the fairy master, and she has grown from an eight-year-old girl to a slim girl now. Her father Mo Hai had read before, so he taught his daughter to read and write whenever he had time, and later there was a fortune teller who said that although Mo Xue was a daughter, she was strange, and she would be a person who carried all things in the future, and her future was limitless. Mo Hai thought about what the fairy master said before, and he was convinced, so he asked his daughter to pretend to be a man to go to the school to study. And most of the money he earned in a year was used to study for Mo Xue, and his life was very hard, but fortunately, Dr. Zhang was willing to help him later, and his life was finally better. It is precisely because of this that Mo Hai is very grateful to Dr. Zhang, after all, how many people in this world will help a person who is not related by blood? Although Mo Xue has studied, her daughter's temperament is very different from other country women, and her personality is not as restrained as other women. The point is that Mo Xue likes to mix with a group of boys, which can give Mo Hai a headache, so every time Mo Hai sees her messing around with a group of boys, she reprimands her.
Mo Xue changed her clothes, and the sun was about to set, so she dissected the fish, chopped the fish head down to make fish head soup, and cut the fish body into pieces and fried it. When it gets dark, the table is set up with rice and fish head soup, as well as fried fish pieces, and a bowl of green vegetables, and dinner is ready.
"Dad, it's time to eat!" Mo Xue shouted, Mo Hai in the yard was chopping wood, he answered, "It's here!"
Mo Hai came in and sat down, looked at the fish head soup, scooped a few spoonfuls and tasted it, and said with a smile: "Xue'er's craftsmanship is okay." Mo Xue looked at Mo Hai and said with a smile, "Of course." Mo Hai said: "You are just like a boy, can you be more restrained, read the book in vain?" Mo Xue heard this, puffed out her cheeks, Mo Hai said again: "Don't be angry, what I said is right, how can a girl's family be like this?" Mo Xue retorted: "But there is no gentleman around me, why should I be a lady, besides, you look at the sisters nearby, which one is a lady, and the opening is foul!" Mo Hai said: " People haven't read, haven't you read?"
Mo Xue didn't fight with him, and stuffed his head to eat. After eating, Mo Hai sat at the door alone, Mo Xue cleaned up inside and out, and saw Mo Hai sitting on the big threshold, she also came over and sat next to him, dragging her chin with her hands.
Mo Hai turned his head and asked, "What's wrong?" Mo Xue sighed and didn't speak, Mo Hai asked again: "What's the matter, little girl?" Mo Xue let out a long sigh again, Mo Hai raised her tone this time, and asked again: "Hey, young man, what are you sighing for?"
"You don't understand a girl's mind, let alone a girl who has read a book!"
"Ouch, it's amazing to be a reader in front of me. ”
"Hmph!" Mo Xue turned her head away.
"Okay, okay, what are you angry with me, you little girl, I'm also for your good, if you get married in the future, you won't be told about you, right?"
"I'm not going to get married!"
"Aren't you on good terms with Li Yun?"
"Brother Li Yun is good, but he can't read big words, he can't do anything except farming, Dad, you say, can I get along with him?"
"And what do you like, daddy go tell you?"
"I said I wouldn't marry, at least not now!"
"You're sixteen, don't worry, you see that other girls are about the same age as you, they are all married, and they all have children. Besides, I'm tired of my father, and there are a lot of people who ask for relatives, and I can meet several of them when I go to town. They all said that there was a beautiful girl in Lijia Village, and she had read books, so they all came to ask for marriage, and I was annoyed to death, so you should find one earlier, lest they bother me!"
"If I don't marry, I won't, I won't!"
"You, you girl, why are you so tough. ”
In fact, when Mo Xue heard that she was as beautiful as a flower, she was also comfortable, but she was disgusted when she heard that she was married, so as soon as Mo Hai opened her mouth, she was very resistant. It's just that when a man gets married, a woman gets married, it's impossible not to marry for the rest of her life, but it is precisely because of this that Mohai has the opportunity to tell her more important things.
Mo Hai said again: "Since you don't want to, then you have to do something, do you remember the immortal master eight years ago?"
As soon as Mo Xue heard the words "fairy master", her eyes immediately lit up, and she quickly asked, "Of course you remember, did he come to our house again?"
"Nope. ”
"Oh!" Mo Xue immediately lost her enthusiasm.
"However, the fairy master told me some things back then, and it was related to you. ”
"Something to do with me?" Mo Xue was interested again.
Mo Hai coughed deliberately twice, ignoring her, Mo Xue immediately shook him and said, "Tell me, what did the fairy master say?"
Mo Hai's eyes deliberately looked at it, and said, "Who was there just now who was talking about not marrying or not marrying?
"Okay, okay, it's my daughter's fault, my daughter will kowtow to you to make amends. Saying that, he really got up and stood in front of Mo Hai, knelt down and kowtowed.
"Okay, okay, don't come to this set. ”
Mo Xue sat back beside Mo Hai and looked at Mo Hai with a smile.
Mo Hai then said: "Back then, the immortal master was kind to us, and his old man told me that he was from Jishi Mountain and was an immortal of Jishi Mountain, right?"
Mo Xue nodded and said: "Yes, Jishi Mountain, I have read it in the book, according to legend, Jishi Mountain is a sacred mountain on Kunlun Mountain, and there are immortals living on it, and the immortal master will not really come from Jishi Mountain, right?"
"Can this be fake? You should remember that year, Dad, my whole leg was useless, and I couldn't walk, but the fairy master didn't do anything, so he said a word, and I was completely fine, do you think he is really a fairy?"
Mo Xue nodded and said, "Yes, the Immortal Master is indeed the Immortal Master, but if he says that he is from Jishi Mountain, he must be from Jishi Mountain?"
"He is even willing to save me, why lie to us?"
"Well, I'm overthinking. But Daddy, what do you tell me about this and what does it have to do with me?"
Mo Hai slapped his chin and said, "Of course it has a relationship, and it has a lot to do with it!"
"What's the relationship?"
Mo Hai paused, and then said: "Before the Immortal Master left, he told me that you are talented and intelligent, and you are a good material for cultivation, and he wants to wait for you to go to Jishi Mountain to find him when you are sixteen years old, worship him as a teacher, and ask for a path of immortality." ”
"Huh?" Mo Xue looked incredulous, "How is it possible?
"Who lied to you, have you ever seen a father deceive his daughter like this?"
"But this is too outrageous, how can I be favored by the fairy master. Besides, Jishi Mountain is so far away, if I walk there, where will I get there? Not to mention the thousands of mountains and rivers are far away, even if I encounter jackals, tigers, leopards and robbers halfway, my little life will be gone. ”
"yes, that's what I thought too. But he said that he would give you a token, and that token could protect you all the way and not get lost. ”
"No, no, no, I'm a little girl, wherever I can endure this, I will die when I walk. ”
Seeing that she didn't believe it, Mo Hai got up and said, "You wait!" and entered the house, and after a while he came out again, holding a sword in his hand, and then sat down.
"What is this? Why do we still have a sword at home? It's just that the sword in your hand is so dark that it doesn't look good at all. ”
Mo Hai held the sword in both hands and said: "How do I know, when the fairy master gave it to me, it was still golden, it was very beautiful, but then I don't know what's wrong, it turned black, and I have been under your bed, I will take a look at it every few days." ”
"Just under my bed?" Mo Xue was stunned.
"It was the fairy lord who didn't let me tell you, he said that he would tell you again when you were sixteen, and I will tell you when you are sixteen this year. ”
Mo Xue finally understood, no wonder her father still wanted her to go to study because she didn't have much spare money, he originally hoped that she would be able to go to Jishi Mountain in the future, so as not to know a word when she practiced in the future.
"But there is nothing peculiar about this sword, how can it protect me? Even if it could protect me, I wouldn't have been able to go that far. ”
"I don't know about this, but it's strange to say, I once wanted to pull out this sword, but no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't pull it out, and it was the fairy master's request, I didn't dare to mess around, so I kept it still. ”
"Can't pull it out?" Mo Xue looked curious, she reached out and took it and looked at it. This sword was three feet long, and it was black, but as soon as she held it in her hand, she felt a clear stream flowing from the palm of her hand, and she couldn't help but feel refreshed. Mo Xue stood up and said in surprise: "Why, as soon as I hold it in my hand, I feel a stream of air rushing into my body, and my spirit is much better, and my whole body is full of strength!" Mo Hai sat down and didn't get up, so he said: "It seems that the fairy master really didn't lie to us, otherwise why don't I feel anything in my hand, and you just have it when you hold it?"
Mo Xue walked around the courtyard with a sword and learned to look like a knight, and then jumped, and the more he jumped, the more powerful he became. Mo Xue was both excited and happy, she ran to Mo Hai, and said with a smile: "It seems that this sword is really a divine object, a treasure!" Mo Hai said: "Of course, is it possible that I can still help the fairy master deceive you?" Mo Xue went to the courtyard again, she held the sword scabbard in her left hand, held the hilt of the sword in her right hand, and pulled it out hard, but she didn't expect to pull it out, Mo Xue couldn't help but be surprised. At this time, the golden light of the sword body was shining, and Mo Hai was also shocked, and he almost fell off the threshold. He immediately got up and came to Mo Xue's side, and exclaimed, "Girl, you actually pulled it out!"
"I don't know, I just pull it out casually, and it will come out, Dad, you won't lie to me, right?"
"How can I lie to you, or you return to the sheath, I'll try!"
Mo Xue put the sword back into the sheath and handed it to Mo Hai, who also held the scabbard in one hand and the hilt of the sword in the other. How did he know that the divine sword didn't move at all, he tried it again, but it still didn't move, Mo Xue saw that he was not pretending, and wondered in his heart: "Why did I pull it out as soon as I pulled it out, and my father couldn't pull it out even after all his efforts?"
Mo Hai finally gave up, gave it to Mo Xue, and said, "Look, I didn't lie to you, I was sweating and it didn't have any reaction, you pulled it out casually." It seems that the fairy master is very kind to you, otherwise you wouldn't be the only one who can pull it out. ”
Mo Xue was silent for a while, and then said, "But even if I am allowed to go, I don't want to go." ”
"Why?"
"Because I'm going to be with Daddy!"
"Silly boy, even if you refuse to leave me now, you don't want to marry sooner or later, and you don't want to leave me? Since you don't want to marry, then listen to the words of the fairy master, go to him, and maybe cultivate immortality at that time, wouldn't it be good? How many people want to live forever but can't ask for it, don't you just look at those emperors?"
"But I don't. ”
"Then marry early, the fairy master said, he doesn't force you, the choice lies with you. ”
Mo Xue lowered her head, her heart was very entangled, and Mo Hai said again: "It's late now, go back and rest." You think about it and make a decision early. ”
Mo Hai went back to the house, but Mo Xue still stood motionless. She was faced with the first choice in her life, and it was such a big choice, that she didn't know what to do for a while. She saw a large stone in the courtyard and sat on it with her sword in her hand.
"What to do, hey, it's a headache. ”
On the one hand, there is the way of immortality, Mo Xue knows it, after all, she has read mythological classics, not to mention that she really met the fairy master back then, in other words, everyone wants to live forever. But on the other side is her biological father, but she only has this one relative, so it is difficult for her to choose for a while.
Although Mo Xue is a woman, she will not be willing to be ordinary. And although the so-called way of immortality is very far away from her and unrealistic, the fairy master is a real existence. She muttered in her heart: "I've read books and know a lot, wouldn't it be in vain if I married someone casually, although Brother Li Yun is good, I don't want to do this." ”
"Well, that's it, I'm going to find the fairy master, even if it's a thousand difficulties, I have to fight!"
Mo Xue seemed to have made a decision in her heart, she looked at the black sword in her hand, and pulled it out casually, as a result, a golden light flew out, and then entered through her eyebrows.
"Oops!" Mo Xue's head ached, and she almost fell off the stone, but when she came back to her senses, she was fine. She touched her forehead, thinking to herself what had just gotten into her head. But at this moment, she looked at the fence that surrounded the yard, and she could see it much more clearly than before, even the texture of the leaves of the rattan climbing on the fence. The point is that it is night, and the lights in the house are very dim
"Oh my God, this, what's going on!"
Not only that, but her mind seemed clearer than before. She got up again and ran around the yard, not expecting to run more than a dozen laps in a row, and she didn't feel tired at all.
Mo Xue was more and more surprised, she couldn't imagine that she had just decided to go to Jishi Mountain, and such a thing had happened, but she didn't know that she had been reborn at this time, different from ordinary people.
"Alas, it seems that the fairy master has calculated everything, I just made up my mind that he is like this, I just have to go if I don't go. ”
Although Mo Xue complained a little, she didn't expect that the fairy master could be counted just right, and her heart was full of admiration for him.
At this time, Mohai came out and asked her, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay!" Mo Xue said with a wicked smile on his face.
"It's not good to see you laughing like this!" Mo Hai was a little incredulous.
"It's all right!"
"Okay, I'll go to bed, and you can rest early. ”
Mo Xue saw that he was going back again, so she pulled out her sword again and took a look. She looked at the black scabbard hilt, but the sword was so smooth and delicate that it could still shine into a human figure. And the sword body exudes a faint golden glow, which leaks like a waterfall, which is very wonderful. She couldn't help but say: "People say that the gold and jade are defeated outside, but this sword is just the opposite, but the gold and jade are in it, and it is really a sword." ”
Mo Xue tried to swing it, the sword was three feet and three inches long, which was not easy for her, after all, she had never practiced martial arts and swordsmanship. It's just that at the beginning, the golden light entered the center of her eyebrows, and she didn't have much effort to wield it now, but it was handy, which surprised her.
"I've heard Mr. talk about a lot of swords before, what is too a sword, and the cadre Mo Evil Sword, but many of these swords are owned by the world, this sword is the fairy master's, it must be more powerful than those swords, but the hilt of this scabbard is too ugly and black. ”
Mo Xue looked at the sword, but her heart was sour, and tears flowed out unconsciously. She wiped her tears, then sat down on the stone again, looked at the vast starry sky, and was in a daze for a long time, and then went back to sleep very late.