"That water monster, it's so terrifying, it has hair on its body, it looks like it's an upside-down person!" Wang Yanzi told Tao Ziyun in shock.

Tao Ziyun thought about it, he had read the county chronicles and knew that there was an animal called the water monkey, so he persuaded Wang Yanzi and said: "Like a human, it must be a water monkey, so there is no need to be afraid." ”

"The monkey is upright, the upside-down water monkey is so strange!

Tao Ziyun explained: "It should be the result of the evolution of that kind of animal in order to adapt to survival, human upright walking can help speed up food digestion, that kind of water monster walking upside down, can't it reduce food consumption! One of the strategies of the creatures that have bred is to reduce consumption, eating something once can eat food again after a long time, dinosaurs died after the environment deteriorated without eating, pig dragons and turtles can survive the difficult period, and then survive and reproduce to this day. ”

"Then let's treat it as a water monkey, we have to remind everyone, don't go into the lake lightly. Wang Yanzi made a concluding speech.

"It's not difficult, let's go to my cousin's house, write a few signs, and erect them by the lake, so that everyone doesn't go into the water. Tao Ziyun thought of the idea of coping, "If it doesn't take the initiative to hurt people, we won't care about it, if they take the initiative to hurt people, we will find a way to get rid of them." ”

"All right, you all come to my house and sit down. Tao Ziyun's eldest cousin, Fu Overtone, invited them, "When I go back, I'll be able to find materials to make signs." ”

"Okay. Tao Ziyun helped Wang Feng into the carriage, and then beckoned everyone: "Carry the two turtles to the carriage, and carry the basin containing the fish that my cousin just caught with the fishing net, and then you all ride in the carriage, and I will ride my own horse, and go to my cousin's house together, and then go back after dinner." ”

Tao Ziyun's uncle and aunt were also at home this time. I heard that there are water monsters in the lake, so they want to make zuò warning signs, they all help Tao Ziyun's two cousins to find materials together, and make several signs, and his uncle wrote on them with a pen and ink: "Recently, there have been water monsters under the water of this lake, and people and animals are prohibited from entering the water from now on, so as not to be harmed by water monsters!"

"Cousin, let's just go and install these signs!" Tao Ziyun's eldest cousin, Fu Xuanyin, said to Tao Ziyun with the warning sign that had been prepared.

"Okay, cousin, you are very diligent! Let's go immediately!" Tao Ziyun helped his eldest cousin onto the horse, and he himself sat behind his cousin, Tao Ziyun's uncle came over with a hoe, and Tao Ziyun took the hoe. With one hand in his hand, he grabbed the reins of his horse and ran to the lake next to the village.

Tao Ziyun was digging a pit by the lake, and his cousin was busy installing warning signs in the pit.

"Cousin, it turns out that there is a dark river at the bottom of this lake connected to the sea, no wonder no matter how much flood occurs, the water in this lake will not overflow, and there are also large underground springs at the bottom of the lake, and there are also streams flowing into the lake in the mountains and forests around the lake. These floods and springs have gone through the dark river at the bottom of the lake to the sea!" Tao Ziyun's cousin chatted with him about daily life while working.

"Yes, such a good lake, I hope it won't be ruined by the water monsters, after all, water monsters are used to underwater activities. It's not easy for us to deal with it, and if it comes out and harms people and animals, we'll have to find a way to fight it. Tao Ziyun said solemnly, he saw that his eldest cousin was in a good mood now. So I asked him about the cormorant, "What happened to the female? I didn't even see it." ”

"It's hatching baby cormorants!" Fu overtone excitedly told Tao Ziyun: "After the male cormorant was killed by me, we didn't take the female cormorant out to fish, mainly because it started to nest." Before that, he had laid twenty eggs, and after the female cormorant had nested, my grandmother told me to let all the eggs hatch for her, so that we would have many cormorants! I thought that the male cormorant who was killed by me would have offspring, and the little cormorant would grow into such a heroic fisherman, and my brother and I were in a better mood when we thought of this, and we waited for the little cormorant to come out of the shell, and we took good care of them!"

Tao Ziyun perked up when he heard this: "Hehe, hearing this news, my mood has also improved." Where did you get the cormorants from?"

As they chatted, they rode along the lake to plant warning signs, only the last sign was not ready.

"I didn't buy them, but when my father and mother went to work in the field and passed by a river beach, they caught two little cormorants from the nest in the trees, and they couldn't fly at that time, and when they could fly, my father and mother cut off the excess wing feathers for them, and they never flew far, and they were all cooked by us to catch fish!" Fu Panyin proudly described to Tao Ziyun the history of the cultivation of fishing masters.

"Honorable completion of the mission! Go back and see the female cormorant hatching her eggs. Tao Ziyun looked at the sunset in the sky, helped his eldest cousin onto the horse and let him hold the hoe, and he sat behind the horse and happily returned to his grandfather's house.

Tao Ziyun's little cousin accompanied the Wang brothers to drink tea at the dining table in the hall, and before they could ask, Tao Ziyun told them: "No need to ask, the warning sign has been made." ”

Fu Xuanyin called Tao Ziyun sweetly in his heart: "Cousin, come and see, what a loving cormorant!"

In a corner next to the gate, there is a wooden chicken coop, and on top of the chicken coop is a basket, and in the nest made of baskets, the female cormorant quietly incubates the cormorant eggs.

Tao Ziyun kindly touched the back of the cormorant with his hand, and regardless of whether it understood or not, he said softly to it: "Hatch the eggs well, you bear everyone's hopes." ”

Tao Ziyun's grandfather came over, and when he saw Tao Ziyun, he said, "Ziyun, go to the kitchen, I'll teach you how to make fish dishes without fish bones." The cormorant must not move it, lest it be frightened and not hatch its eggs properly. ”

"Well, I was thinking about learning. I'm going now, if I want to eat fish happily, I have to learn this must-learn craft!" Tao Ziyun happily followed his grandfather to the kitchen, and the Wang brothers also followed when they saw this.

"This is the fresh fish that your cousin brought back in the evening, and I will use this fish to learn and eat the dish tonight. Tao Ziyun's grandfather caught a fish, took them to the cutting board, and showed them as he spoke: "First scrape off the scales with the back of a knife, and then cut the fish belly - take out the internal organs of the fish - put the fish on the side of the cutting board, press the fish head, use a knife to stick to the fish's spine from the tail of the fish, follow the cut fish belly, cut the fish head, and then cut off the half of the fish horizontally at that position, and then from the inside of the half, use the knife to stick to the layer of fish bones, and cut off that layer of fish bones, which is the meat without fish bones." In the same way, the other half is cut horizontally to make a fish without bones, and the head and bones can be fried in oil to make a crispy deep-fried bone that no longer the mouth and throat. ”

Tao Ziyun saw that his grandfather had finished cooking a fish, so he asked, "I'll do the rest!"

Tao Ziyun's grandfather handed the knife to Tao Ziyun, watched Tao Ziyun do it from the side, and of course, he had to take the trouble to correct him, so that he could skillfully make fish meat without fish bones, and then handed it to his grandmother, and after frying with various condiments, it was a rare delicacy!

After dinner, Tao Ziyun and the Wang brothers went home overnight with lanterns, and in the carriage where the two brothers were sitting was the big turtle they caught. Tao Ziyun traveled through the era of arrival, and there was no need to prohibit the capture of various animals, so he didn't have to ask them not to bring the big sea turtle home.

Tao Ziyun accompanied the Wang brothers back to their home, and praised their father and mother for their bravery, and their father and mother were overjoyed when they saw the captured sea turtle and heard about their son's heroism.

Tao Ziyun returned to the school, and Moss Yu came to open the door for him. He went to the stable to close the horses, and when he got to the kitchen, they were still frying oil and rice tea and boiling sweet wine.

However, Tao Ziyun was already the last person to take a bath tonight, and after washing it out, he also ate a little fried oil rice tea and sweet wine. Under Tao Ansai's inquiry, Tao Ziyun told them about this evening's experience by the fire.

"The news you brought back is a joy and a worry!" Tao Ansai was really happy and worried, "I'm very happy to have a little cormorant to inherit his father's business." As for the big water monster, I hope it won't cause trouble. ”

"Don't be afraid, I'm here. Tao Ziyun comforted Tao Ansai and said, "Okay, you continue to talk, I'll go back to my room to write." ”

Tao Ziyun diligently wrote the new "Book of Music" under the candlelight, and the fact that Moss Yu fell asleep behind him no longer caused him to be lazy and lazy.

After a few days, Tao Ziyun's new "Book of Music" for the evil gods was finally completed, and he went to the county to find a bookstore to engrave it, but it was only a few dozen copies, and it would take a long time to get the engraved book. In this way, he went to the school where his father taught, and the housework of his home and the school was done by his spiritual bean soldiers.

One morning, there was an unexpected knock at the door of the school! Usually no one knocks on the door, because the students in the school live in the school.

When Tao Ziyun opened the door to look, it was Liu Liuga who was leading the horse!

"Brother Tao, I'm going day and night, looking for you to help me!" Liu Liuga anxiously said when he saw Tao Ziyun.

"To help you, you live in the house of your men in San'in, right?what's going on there?" Tao Ziyun was planning to do something, he had to go to San'in again.

"I did live in that house in San'in some time ago, but now I invite you to go to the place, not San'in, I want to ask you to go back with me to my Liyuan country!" Liu Liuga unexpectedly asked Tao Ziyun, "The two people who sent the ashes of my subordinates back to China came to sue me and asked me to return to China quickly, saying that my father and my brother were abducted!"

"Ahh

Liu Liuga said to Tao Ziyun in his heart: "It was a large group of monsters walking upside down that captured my father and younger brother, and people in my country say that those monsters walking upside down are faint beasts!" (to be continued......)