Chapter 135: Eating Fish
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Qu Da or nodded and said, "Yes." Then he asked, "But you know where the squeak comes from, and who can make such a loud sound in the middle of this empty desert land." ”
Everyone was dumbfounded for a while, and their hearts were all yes.
Fang Daquan dug out his ears and said, "Could it be an immortal?"
Meng Da spat and said, "Fart, I think it's a monster." ”
After saying this, he felt a little uncomfortable, as if he was afraid of being heard by the person he said, and he looked around, and there was silence all around, except for the sound of the river flowing and the sound of the fire not far away.
Wu Dahe grilled a few more fish and distributed them to Zhao Zheng and Wu Shan, Zhao Zheng was already hungry, but the fish that was grilled first was given to the injured Shanshui Gate Taoist, and he and Wu Zhi thanked him and took it, and Shan Daxin on the side quipped: "Isn't Zhao Zheng not eating meat?"
Zhao Zheng smiled bitterly and said in response to the question: "Today...... Those bats are too ...... today It's horrible. ”
He hadn't recovered from the fear of being besieged by the blood bat, and he didn't know that he had completed the realm of the integration of human medicine today, even if he was bitten by the blood bat, it would not hurt him in the slightest, not to mention that the blood bat smelled the medicinal gas emanating from the pores of his body and avoided him.
Wu Dahe and the last grilled fish were given to Qu Da or Shan Daxin, who was not injured at all, and the two took the fish, ate it slowly, and bit the skin, and the meat inside was white and a refreshing fragrance came out.
Shan Daxin took the grilled fish, but his eyes kept staring at Qu Da or looking, Qu Da or saw him staring at him in the spare eyes of his eyes, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Shan Daxin laughed and said, "Usually Senior Brother sheds tears every time he eats fish, after so many years, I think Senior Brother has cured this problem?"
Everyone laughed, and it seemed that there were really tears in the corners of Qu Da or his eyes.
Qu Da or sniffed and said, "It's an old problem, it's not going to get better." ”
The crowd laughed again.
Qu Da or he took a deep snort and said to himself, "I haven't eaten such a delicious fish for a long time." ”
Everyone was very disappointed when they saw that he didn't continue the topic just now.
Fang Daquan had already eaten a fish cleanly, took a smaller one, ate two bites, and couldn't help asking, "Where did the squeak come from?"
Qu Da or sighed, put the fish he had bitten aside, and said, "When I was very young, my father and mother were fishermen. ”
When the Taoist priests heard about him when he was a child, they didn't know why, the senior brother had always been strict and didn't talk to the brothers about these short things in the family.
I only heard Qu Da or say: "The side we live in is a small fishing village near the East China Sea, called Qu Jiabin, because there are ten ** people in that village whose surname is Qu." ”
Shan Daxin said: "It turns out that Senior Brother Qu has a very ordinary background, and I used to feel inferior because my family was born as a blacksmith, but now it seems that I should cheer up and don't give up on myself because of my birth." ”
Qu Da Or continued: " That year, I was only eleven or twelve years old, that year was not good, we who made a living by fishing were not good, and we could only catch a dozen small fish for ten days and a half months, so the adults discussed going to the waters near Yazi Island five hundred miles away from the East China Sea to try their luck, and no one dared to go to that sea area in general, because the old people have lived in the Yazi Island since ancient times, and the sea area was windy and turbulent, and the ordinary fishermen would not take the risk, and it was really impossible to catch fish that year, so the adults discussed to go to the group to see。 ”
He paused at this point, picked up a stone and threw it into the river not far away, and then said: "My father also went, and I remember clearly what my father said to me when he was leaving, and he said, 'Da Or, if there is any mistake in your father, don't go far away to catch fish in the future.'" I didn't understand the meaning of this sentence at the time, and I was clamoring for my father to bring me river mussels and pearls when he came back......
When he said this, the corners of his eyes moistened slightly, and his voice choked a little unsmoothly, he stopped his voice, looked high into the air, let the tears he was about to shed withdraw, and kept looking into the sky.
There were a few stars in the sky that lit up slightly, so small, so faint, like the brilliance of a grain of rice.
No one urged him to continue, everyone was silent, as if they were recalling their childhood, watching the occasional small sparks burst out of the dry branches, and then disappeared, and everyone was like an old monk who had settled down.
Finally, someone let out a long sigh and broke the silence, Qu Da or came back to his senses and said: " Dad told me these words and left, and then there was no news, until a whole month passed, the fishing boat that went out came back, everyone got on the boat, but there was no fish on the boat, and finally found the third Hu family from the cabin, when Hu Laosan was already dying, everyone hurriedly cooked a big bowl of ginger soup for him to pour down, for a long time, Hu Laosan woke up slowly, his face was full of fear, shouting 'bat...... Bat...... The bat ate ......' called these words and he died, how could everyone have heard of the bat eating people, but seeing that only Hu Laosan came back, and the other people who went did not know whether they were alive or dead, for a while, the old and the young all cried, but there was no way after crying, so they had to go to sea again to find out......"
When everyone heard this, they all knew that the man-eating bat must be a blood bat, but how could the blood bat live in the sea, looking at Qu Da or his painful face, they all knew that he was haunted by memories, and the pain he experienced when he was a child came back to torture him, and everyone really wanted to stop him from talking about it, but no one could bear to disturb his memories of breaking his liver and intestines.
Qu Da or said: " That time I also clamored to go, but my mother was willing to let me go on an adventure, looking at me all day, but the more I was not allowed to go, the more I wanted to go, so one night I secretly escaped, climbed into the cabin of the boat that I wanted the next day, the next morning I heard my mother crying and howling outside to find me, and then I heard someone on the boat looking for me, when I was hiding in the basket where the fish was released, so no one was found, I heard the cry of my mother, I really wanted to run back to my mother's arms and not go to sea, but I couldn't stand the idea of looking for my father, my mother cried and I cried, and finally made up my mind to find my father, I remember that day my mother cried outside the boat, I sobbed low in the boat, the boat went away, my mother's cry could not be heard, I was very scared in my heart at that time, I had an inexplicable premonition, as if I would never see my mother again, never hear my mother's voice again, and later, it turned out that really, I never saw my mother again, never heard my mother's voice again......"
When he said this, something seemed to be stuffed in his throat, and he couldn't say it anymore, and it was a long time before I heard him sigh softly.
Everyone raised their heads, only to see that tears were already overflowing from the corners of the senior brother's eyes, and he gritted his teeth tightly and looked firmly at a corner of the sky.
At some point, several sobs rang out, and then, as if to cover up the cry, another man coughed loudly, deliberately pretending not to be affected by the story.
Meng Da had to laugh hard twice and said, "Senior brother also has such a fragile side. ”
People did not look at his face, but from his laughter they heard tearful sadness on his face.
Zhao Zheng's eyes were full of tears, and he looked at Qu Dahe's figure in a daze, he suddenly felt very fragile with that strong back, even if he was treacherous and cunning, he should be.
It's not a touching story, but everyone was touched.