"What is she doing at the lake in the middle of the night?"

Chu Liuxian recognized it, the one who walked to the lakeside before him was not Qianhuan Sakura, who was it?

The night before the Thousand Illusion Sakura, but it was very tormented, and it was not good to rest at this time, how could it come here?

Chu Liuxian had doubts in his heart, and quietly approached the past.

There are very few people in the world who can catch and perceive his breath, and Thousand Illusion Sakura is obviously not among them, she didn't notice it at all, and there was an extra person behind her.

When Chu Liuxian got closer, close enough to hear the slightest movement, the Thousand Illusion Cherry Blossoms were still unaware and wandered by the lake.

"Hey!"

"Suffocated!"

Thousand Phantom Sakura pouted, walking back and forth on the lakeside.

As she walked, she kicked the pebbles of the lake and muttered to herself, "It's so boring, no one can listen to me." ”

"It's so uncomfortable not being able to speak~~~~~"

When Chu Liuxian heard this, he smiled self-deprecatingly, knowing that he was suspicious, and thought: "It turns out that this little girl can't stand being suffocated by no one's words, so she came outside to relax." Speaking of which, they really live up to the nickname that the fat man gave their sisters: Grandma's mouth!"

"This fat man, his mouth is poisonous enough!"

Chu Liuxian wanted to show up and greet the Thousand Phantom Sakura to leave together.

With Qian Phantom Sakura here, his plan naturally can't be realized, and he doesn't worry about her little girl staying on the shore of this lake where a lot of things have happened, so it can only be like this.

Before he could straighten up, he suddenly heard his name from the mouth of the Thousand Illusion Sakura, and Chu Liuxian had no choice but to lie down again.

"The fat man was so annoying that he didn't want to talk to him. ”

"Stay in the Immortal Prince~~" Thousand Illusion Sakura looked depressed and said to herself: "In front of him, why don't I dare to speak?"

"It's so uncomfortable~~"

Thinking of the suffocation, Thousand Phantom Sakura kicked the pebbles in front of her into the lake.

With a "plop", the moonlight on the surface of the lake shattered, and countless ripples of broken silver spread in all directions.

In the middle of the night, the sound of falling needles can be heard, and the sound of pebbles falling into the water is naturally amplified a hundred times, which scares Qian Phantom Sakura.

Without her chattering, the lakeside fell silent.

A thin mist suddenly rose and shrouded the surface of the lake, hazy and hazy, like a person in the middle of the moon.

"Woo woo ~ woo woo ~ ~~"

With the night wind, the sound of sobbing that had suppressed the sound came faintly.

"What sound?"

Chu Liuxian was desperate to show up, leaned out slightly, and looked towards the lake.

Thousand Phantom Sakura also heard the voice, and with courage, she tiptoed to follow the sound of the lake.

"Huh, how come there is a little girl?"

Thousand Phantom Sakura rubbed her eyes with her small fist, making sure that she was not surprised after looking at the dazzling eyes.

On the surface of the lake dozens of feet away in front of her, there was a small reef protruding, on which sat a girl, lying on the reef and crying.

Between the reef and the lakeside, a reef the size of a foot rises out of the water, and from time to time it is submerged by the undulating water, like a small road and bridge.

"Are those...... Fishermen?"

Thousand Illusion Sakura remembered the scene they had seen in front of the shrine with Chu Liuxian and them, and hesitated.

"It doesn't seem to be. ”

Thousand Phantom Sakura looked at it for a while, and found that the girl's clothes were dry, and there was no non-stop water under her feet, the moonlight was draped on her body, and there was a shadow in the lake, no matter how she looked at it, she didn't look like a ghost.

In the past dozen breaths, the girl in the lake has been crying, as if something unfortunate has happened to her, and there is nowhere to cry, so she can only cry alone in the lake in this cold night.

Thousand Phantom Sakura couldn't suppress the curiosity in her heart and tiptoed over.

When she tiptoed, jumping from time to time, crossed the reef road bridge, and came to the side of the lake girl, the lake girl also raised her head with pear blossoms.

She snorted, looking at Qianhuan Sakura in confusion and horror, and asked timidly, "Sister, who are you?"

"My sister's name is Thousand Phantom Sakura. ”

Qian Xuan Sakura looked at her little pitiful appearance, her guard was greatly reduced, and she took a few steps closer, "What's your name?"

Maybe it was Qianhuan Sakura's appearance that didn't look threatening, the girl shrank for a moment, didn't dodge, and said softly: "Sister Qianhuan, my name is Li'er." ”

Getting closer, Qianhuan Sakura can see it clearly, Li'er looks very delicate, even if it is coarse linen, it can't hide the kind of beautiful scenery in the kind of beautiful place, so that the delicate face can be raised.

She didn't wear shoes under her feet, and soaked in the lake with her bare feet, and with a slight stroke, there were countless ripples.

As the name suggests, the feeling that Li'er gives Qianhuan Sakura is that she is a little girl who should be happy under her parents' knees and is loved by her father and brother.

Well, Thousand Phantom Sakura, she really wants to talk to someone.

As soon as she sat down, she began to talk to Li'er, from the lake water is so cold, the moon is really round today, and soon the two of them will close the distance, and the sound of giggles echoes on the surface of the lake.

Chu Liuxian's heart was raised.

The judgment that Thousand Illusion Sakura had made before, he had also done it, yes, this lake girl is indeed different from those fishermen who don't stop dripping water and are like water ghosts.

However, Chu Liuxian was more observant than Thousand Illusion Sakura, and he was extremely sure that before the fog on the lake, there was absolutely no reef there, let alone the existence of this lake girl.

"What kind of existence is this pity?"

Chu Liuxian mentioned it in his heart, and naturally paid special attention to the situation in the lake, and the conversation between Qianhuan Sakura and Li'er, because the surroundings were too quiet, came into his ears word for word.

"O mercy, why are you crying here in the middle of the night?"

Qian Phantom Sakura asked with great concern: "Is someone bullying you, you tell your sister, and your sister will help you out." ”

As she spoke, she raised her small fist to show her determination.

Li'er shook her head, her mouth was deflated, and she was about to cry again, and said with a crying voice: "Li'er misses her father, her mother, and she misses Brother Niu very much." ”

"What about your father and mother?"

"Dead ......"

"Wow" and cried, "They...... They were all eaten by fish. ”

"Fish?" Thousand Phantom Sakura was startled, instinctively remembering the black strange fish she saw that night, and her heart was furious, for fear that a big fish would pounce out of the water and swallow the two of them in one bite.

The lake on all sides was unusually quiet, except for the ripples caused by the paddling of their two pairs of little feet, the waves were undisturbed.

Thousand Illusion Sakura breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Is it that kind of big strange fish?"

Li'er shook her head and said, "It's not like that, sister, don't you know?"

She raised her head and said in a very natural tone: "In Arowana Village, it is not people who eat fish, but fish who eat people......"

Immediately afterwards, Li'er used a very sad tone to tell the sadness and tragedy hidden in the sentence "fish eat people".

It turns out that there is an ancient legend in Qianshanbo, where it is said that a long, long time ago, a divine dragon descended from the sky and plunged into the lake.

Every drop of its blood, every scale, turned into all sorts of fish in the lake.

This is the origin of the name Arowana Village.

In the earliest days, fishing villages fished and ate fish.

Until I don't know when, the Cui family immortals came. They took possession of the island in the middle of the lake, took charge of the village of Arowana, and from that day on, the fishermen could no longer eat even a single fish.

The Cui family set rules for the fishing village.

Fishermen are not allowed to eat fish is the first one, on the grounds that the fish is transformed by a demon dragon, and eating it will turn into a demon.

Naturally, no one believes this, after all, my ancestors have eaten it like this for generations, and no one has ever become a demon. It's just the Cui family's order, and it can't be disobeyed.

The Cui family also hired all of them to catch fish, stipulating how much fish each household should hand over each year before they were willing to distribute a small amount of grain and rice.

Those who don't catch enough fish can only starve.

If the share payable is exceeded, the remaining Yu Cui family will pay for the purchase.

The Cui family's control of the entire fishing village has lasted for hundreds of years.

In the past hundreds of years, the people of Arowana Village have worked hard to catch fish for the Cui family, and I don't know how many people died of exhaustion in the lake, and the fishermen dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, calling it: fish eat people.

"What does the Cui family want fish for?"

When Thousand Phantom Sakura asked this sentence, her voice trembled a little.

She didn't know that the Cui family had disappeared as early as 10,000 years ago, so this girl ...... It's just that, unconsciously, Thousand Illusion Sakura has been attracted by all the incomprehension and strangeness in the story told by Li'er, so she moved her body and decided to continue listening.

On Li'er's face, the tears of broken threads slid down like pearls, rolled down into the lake, splashed countless crystals, and cried: "No one knows what they want fish for, Daddy and Mom catch fish themselves, they will take them all, and there will be no one left." ”

"That time, there was a lazy man in the village who never fished much, and that time he encountered fish news, caught an extra boat, and after selling it to the Cui family, the Cui family said that he did a good job and rewarded him with a lot of money. ”

"My father caught a lot more fish than him, but the Cui family said it was not good, and they also withheld our food. ”

"Daddy wanted to save a dowry for Li'er, so he went fishing all night, and then he was so tired that he fell into the water and never got up again. ”

When Li'er said this, she lay on the reef and cried loudly, her cry was so terrible that even the nose of the thousand illusion cherry trees next to her was sour, and she hurriedly comforted her softly.

In the distance, Chu Liuxian's brows furrowed, and he whispered to himself: "You are not allowed to eat fish, the lazy man gets rich, and the diligent father is tired to death, what's the matter?"

He vaguely felt that there was something very important hidden in what Li'er was telling, but he couldn't catch it, and he was a little anxious.

"Daddy is dead...... My mother went fishing and died......"

Li'er's cry was mixed with intermittent words, "Brother Niu said that he wanted to marry Li'er, build a house, hold a banquet, and go fishing every night, but he didn't listen to any persuasion." ”

"Later, he went out at night, and during the day the boat floated back, and there were no people......"

"Woo woo woo ......"

Li'er raised her head, her two red and swollen eyes that were crying were like springs, and she couldn't stop her tears, and cried: "Sister Qianhuan, they were all eaten by fish." ”

Not to mention the little girl Qianhuan Sakura, even Chu Liuxian was moved by the experience of condensing the suffering of countless families in Arowana Village for hundreds of years, and muttered to himself: "Fish eat people, what a fish eats people." ”

"Ten thousand years ago, was the glory of the Cui family built on fish eating people?"

ps：

Two digressions.

Today, there is a small author who asked Dongliu for a chapter, and it is a book that has not been signed.

Not long ago, he approached me, and it was only 20,000 or 30,000 words, so I said, wait for your 150,000 words, if you can still insist, I will push you.

Today, he really has 150,000 words. This road is not easy to follow, it is not easy to persevere, I gave him book advice, and of course I will recommend it to him.

It's just that for a while, I remembered something many years ago, and I couldn't help but want to nag a few words with everyone.

Dongliu is a person who doesn't like to find someone to push the chapter and advertise in other people's book review areas. After writing books for so many years, in addition to the kind of chapter push that people and friends cheered on, there was a chapter push that I remember vividly.

That was in '07, more than six years ago. At that time, Dongliu was still a pink newcomer author, and went to an author with good grades at the time and asked for a chapter push.

The author's name is Bafenyin, and he is afraid that he has not written books for many years, and I don't know if he still reads books?

I really hope that Brother Bafenyin can see these gossip, where to make a head, let's talk.

(To be continued)