CHAPTER XVII

"Who would have thought that the blue crab in the township has now become an indispensable delicacy for the people of Wudi, and all this is thanks to the unnamed hero. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”

The shopkeeper drank water and thought about the source, sighed, and then said excitedly: "If you want me to say this crab, the dragon meat in the sky and the donkey meat in the ground are not outstanding, after cooking, the flavor is even better, especially in the season, the size is the fattest, the crab roe inside is like flowing fat, delicious and delicious, so people bite off their fingers, just pry the shell lightly, the mouth is so moist and sucking, tsk, the taste is ......."

As he spoke, the shopkeeper squinted slightly, shook his head and stroked, as if the crab meat and crab roe had reached his mouth, full of useful expressions, intoxicated.

He realized his gaffe, hehe smiled, and sighed: "It's a pity, this official road is out of the Yangguan desert, and the outsiders who come from the other end are all illiterate old and coarse, and they are used to eating sand, and there are few gourmets who know this way. ”

When he spoke, there were three or two guests before the four of them sat down, or they had rested enough, and the tea money was placed on the table, so he left one after another, he packed up the bowls, and turned around to say angry words that were not afraid of being heard and offended.

The flower-haired old man smiled lightly and asked, "Is this year's blue crab sweet?"

The shopkeeper reacted immediately, put down the empty bowl in his hand, and said happily: "What does the old gentleman mean ......"

The flower-haired old man pointed at a few people and said with a smile: "If it is not troublesome, I will have four mouths of all sizes, steamed and braised in a cage!"

"Don't bother, don't bother, behind the store is my paddy field, don't be impatient, I'll personally go to your old crab!"

The shopkeeper smiled, his small business is small, there is no half of the guy in the store, he is alone inside and out, and he doesn't look at the store, he is full of joy and picks up a bamboo cage and walks out on his back.

Xi Yu couldn't sit still, took off the objects outside his body, and followed him to the small paddy field to help. It is said that it is a paddy field, but there are no rice seedlings in it, but it is more like a fish pond that has been stored, which is clear to the bottom, and it is more and more clear under the white clouds.

He rolled up his trouser legs, rolled up his sleeves, and went into the field, where he was naturally familiar with this kind of thing since he was a child, and tied his waist to the bubbling place, and when he straightened up, there was a dark green fat crab in his hand with a big tongs waving, and after smiling at the shopkeeper, he threw it into the bamboo cage on the shore, and then bent down to catch it.

I don't know when, Qing Yan also came here, stood for a while, sat on the beach, took off her embroidered shoes, put them on her knees, and soaked her tender little feet in the water.

With Xi Yu's contribution, both of them were good hands, and soon grabbed a bamboo cage, and the shopkeeper was barefoot in mud and didn't wear shoes, kicked the crab that fell out back into the paddy field, praised Xi Yu on his lips, and went to work.

If Xi Yu had something on his mind, when the steamed bright red and attractive cooked crab was brought to the table, he didn't eat much, but the flower-haired old man's rare index finger moved, and he ate a few more, but unlike those sand diggers, he didn't have never eaten the fear in his heart and couldn't eat. In the poor and remote land, there is not much food to eat in the famine, and the small water tribes in the ravines and ravines have suffered from the pond fish, and the corpses and bones are countless in his belly.

In the meantime, Xi Yu also asked the flower-haired old man about the strange feeling of being under the water, the flower-haired old man said that it was the undercurrent channel of the boundary river, between the virtual and the real, there are many mysteries, which can be traced back to the beginning of the opening of chaos, it is rumored that there is a long abyss, inhabited by soul-devouring monsters, they were born banished, have no spirit and flesh, and have no place in the eternal silence of darkness, so they have great resentment, and need to seek a replacement in order to rest or quietly escape back to the world through a puppet, they know your past life, present life, past and even future, and even the thoughts that flash in your mind, sometimes disguised in your ear as the whispers of your closest peopleSometimes the transfiguration evokes the strongest desires in your heart, and everyone sees it differently, but some people say that there is no exotic land at all, it is just some kind of phantom projection, which embodies the most fearful and weak part of everyone's heart.

In short, there are many opinions, and none of them can really convince everyone, but we know that for thousands of years, in order not to get lost, the monks who have come and gone have believed in following an unwritten iron rule, that is, the four don'ts.

The so-called four don'ts are don't listen, don't see, don't smell, and don't ask.

The flower-haired old man was also the first time to bring a mortal in, and he was negligent for a while, forgetting that Xi Yu didn't know these things, he was vague, and these words were indeed too obscure for Xi Yu today, so Xi Yu just listened in a daze, but there was always a little doubt faintly haunting his heart, as if what he experienced was a little different from what he said?

At that time, it was clear that there was a sinister villain pushing him into a well. In the darkness, a moment of weightlessness, as if I dreamed of stepping on the air when I was a child, and my body trembled and woke up, which is extremely real.

For these doubts, Xi Yu just shook his head, pressed it in his heart, and didn't ask any more questions, thinking that after his own cultivation, these puzzles might be solved as a matter of course.

They ate and drank enough, said goodbye to the shopkeepers, and set off again, and there were more and more pedestrians on the official road, bustling, mixed with fish and dragons, and a scene of leveling.

None of the four of them spoke, as if they were deliberately not mentioning it, diluting the slightest sorrow of parting, but the macaques saw the long-lost liveliness, probed their brains and scratched their ears and cheeks, and they were not very happy, which caused a lot of good deeds to look sideways, laughing and laughing, thinking that they were foreign artists.

Xi Yu was used to Qing Yan chattering and asking questions, but this time the little girl thought that he was looking at him with a face, and he had always held a grudge against him before, so he sneaked away halfway, hating him for being stingy at the same time, he didn't have the slightest intention of releasing it. Xi Yu was stunned, he didn't say it, but he was slightly bitter in his heart, and when he met again, the moment that flashed in his heart was still fresh in his memory, even if she was scolding herself for not being productive.

At the end of the ancient road, the wind rose. “

Rolling yellow dust, out of reach, two forks in the road.

Someone has to break the silence, Xi Yu stopped, saluted the old man with flower hair, and said, "Old man, just send it here, don't let the kid go." ”