On the sixth day of the first month, it rained heavily.

If it is the fishing season, maybe it is not uncommon to stay on the ginger water for a few days as soon as the net is cast, just because the family almost only relies on such a little fish to sell money to make a living, all expect to be able to sell at a good price, and then can buy a few new clothes with their wives and children, ginger water is not just a lone stream, but a dozen rivers converge in the meantime, the only thing that is the same is that there are many people who rely on water to draft water.

Zhao Qian is not very happy today, this young fisherman who has lived in the lower reaches of this ginger water for more than 20 years is in the masculine period just opened his sleepy eyes today and saw a corpse floating next to his fishing boat, just in time for the fishing season to encounter this bad luck is really a little uncomfortable, I only heard that the tide in Jiangxia a few days ago, I think it should be that the drowned people were washed down at that time, originally the matter of salvaging the corpse should not be done by the fishermen, because the government has set up a scavenger who specializes in salvaging dead bodies in the river, the scavenger can be said to be a very unfortunate job, but there are still many people who are willing to break their heads to do it, Zhao Qian still salvaged the corpse, Living in Jiangshui, in addition to fishing, on weekdays is to accept tourists as a side business, all kinds of people have seen a lot, but also from a person's dress to see whether this person is a rich family, at least the corpse in front of him does not look like him ordinary people.

At this time, it was still early, because there was heavy rain, so Jiang Shui, except for fishermen like him who got up early and were greedy to collect the nets and lower the nets, in fact, most of the fishermen were still sleeping in the cabin.

He searched all over the corpse, and found only a soaked portrait and a few vague letters that had already been soaked in handwriting, but apart from these, he felt a round bead in the bosom of the corpse, and there was nothing else, but he could recognize that the young man had two wounds on his body, one on his shoulder, one on his chest, and a bright red cinnabar on his forehead.

"I don't know if I offended a ruthless person, it's really too much to give people such a painful way to die, and what's even more hateful is that he doesn't even have a valuable object on his body, it's really unlucky. ”

Zhao Qian took the young man's right arm and dragged it away on the deck, ignoring the corpse's head bumping on the deck, he wanted to throw him back into the ginger water and wait for the scavenger to deal with it, but just as he was about to make a move, he felt the young man's right hand twitch.

Not dead yet, he can pick up a life after being so badly injured, maybe he doesn't deserve to die.

The young man, who had been living in Jiangshui since he was a child, was kind enough to leave the "corpse behind." “

He said.

"I, Zhao Qian, am a reckless man with no strength, nothing else, I can't save you, because I don't have the money to hire a doctor, I'm just giving you a chance to see if you will wake up by yourself, just wake up, just do a good deed, if you can't wake up, you will throw it where you find it." ”

said that he was left to fend for himself, Zhao Qian still changed into the clean clothes he changed and washed on weekdays, and wiped his body clean before it was finished, he would not be so generous to let the "corpse" sleep in his bed, because that bed was the bed he slept with his lame mother-in-law.

For two days in a row, Zhao Qian was fishing and collecting nets as always, but instead of dying, the corpse became more and more ruddy, and even his chest began to rise and fall.

"Maybe we'll survive. ”

The young fisherman, who had never known only to care about small profits, was once again generous in making fish soup for the corpse, drinking one small bowl a day, and by five days later he was able to drink two large bowls.

I don't know who I saved, why didn't I wake up for so long? The wounds on his chest were almost healed, and the fisherman meditated in his heart once a day, if he accidentally saved the son of a rich and noble family, maybe other people's families would give him dozens of taels of silver or something under their gratitude, so that there would be no need to run around every day, worrying that his lame woman would get along with other wild men.

Unfortunately, he was destined to be disappointed, because when the young man, who was already able to drink two large bowls of fish soup, woke up on the eighth day, he seemed to have forgotten a lot of things.

"Where are you from?"

In the cabin, Zhao Qian asked the young man in front of him, he hadn't gone home for ten days, he missed his mother-in-law, but he knew that if he brought a corpse back, he would definitely quarrel, and the quarrel would be turned upside down, and he was afraid that his mother-in-law would go behind his back to find a man at home, but he couldn't watch the young man die.

"I don't know. ”

The young man shook his head slightly.

"I seem to have forgotten a lot of things. ”

"Do you remember this painting and these letters?"

Zhao Qian took out the dried young man's only belongings and shook it in front of him, but unfortunately the young man's eyes were confused and even a little empty.

"It seemed familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it. ”

"It's your stuff, it looks like you've lost your memory, so what are you going to do next? You know it's not easy for me to take care of you for so many days, I wanted to see if I could get some benefits from you, but now it seems that there is no fun at all, and I didn't get the benefits, but I ate a lot of fish, which is all white money." ”

Zhao Qian was really heartbroken, but it was not as serious as he said, because he had already thought about this result when he rescued the young man that day, and the reason why he said this was nothing more than to make himself feel a little better in his heart.

"I don't know what to do, but I vaguely remember that someone seemed to have told me that everything in the world is fair, and that you saved me, and I should repay you. ”

"How do you repay?"

"I can help you with fishing, and I can help you with a lot of things. ”

"Just your left hand, which is almost the same as nothing? That's not good, you don't need to repay me, just remember that you owe me a life, because if you fall into the hands of the scavengers, they will let you die even if you are still alive, I should go home, I will send you ashore, and you can decide where to go when the time comes." ”

Zhao Qian propped the boat to the dock, it was dusk, the dock was full of people, and the fish buyers were shouting loudly, but Zhao Qian's boat actually didn't have many fish at all.

"I don't know what's going on, since you got on the boat, the fish in this water seem to be afraid of you, the boat goes there, the fish scatter from where, so that now there is such a little harvest, this is good, go home will inevitably be cleaned up by the mother-in-law. ”

"I can repay you by not letting her clean you up. ”

"That's not necessary, you just have to leave, you can go everywhere, maybe the next moment you will meet your former friends, and they will take you home. ”

"But I owe you my life. ”

"Forget about one life, you just have to live well, if you can meet again in the future and you happen to have money in your pocket, just give me a few dozen taels to repay the favor. ”

"No, I think I remember being told that you can't just owe someone anything. ”

The young man shook his head dumbly, and Zhao Qian laughed at this.

"That friend of yours said that, too?"

"I don't know, but I do remember someone saying that I will follow you until I repay the blessing of saving my life. ”

"Are you sure you followed me only to repay my kindness and not to drink the fish soup I made? ”

"Your fish soup tastes good, but I should have eaten something more delicious than the fish you made, and I don't think you should refuse my kindness, because I won't let you worry about me, I'm just doing it to repay my kindness." ”

"Yes, I can't help you, if you want to follow, you can come along, but I have to tell you in advance that my family is not a wealthy family, and there is no extra silver to support another person. ”

Zhao Qian especially bit the words that there is no extra silver, because he does not have extra silver, a family of three, he and his lame mother-in-law, and an old mother who is sick in bed, the three of them can only rely on a little silver from his fishing and sales every month to make a living, he doesn't want the young man behind him to follow, because he feels that the young man with his left arm is almost crippled will only become a burden, although he told the young man that if he is found by his family in the future, remember to give dozens of taels of silver casually, in fact, it is just a polite word, this world is so big, how can you say that you can find a person if you find a personWhat's more, I don't know how many people die in fights every year on this ginger water, most of them are homeless prodigal sons, where do they come from?

Zhao Qian carried a basket of carp that he had caught in the past ten days to find a place with a slightly higher price and planned to sell it, compared with other people's baskets of fresh carp, it really seemed too cold, they were all fishermen living in this ginger water, and they could basically know so many people who came and went.

"Zhao Qian, I'm afraid it's not enough for your mother-in-law to buy rouge gouache at home, not to mention that you have an old mother who is sick in bed at home, I think you may suffer when you go home this time." ”

"What do you mean by buying rouge gouache for his mother-in-law? There are so many men for his mother-in-law that I don't think he needs to worry about it. ”

Most of the fishermen are so ridiculous, and many of them really can't stand it.

"Where do you need to worry about other people's affairs? Did Zhao Qian borrow your millet and return your chaff, or did he use your family's vegetables, rice, oil, and salt? What should you do, why do you go, you will know that you will eat radish and worry about it one day. ”

It is not difficult to see that this old man should be a man with a face in this town, because he said such a sentence, and the other good people didn't say anything, but they still looked at Zhao Qian's eyes with some jokes, no matter how Zhao Qian was righteous in front of the young people, he immediately became smiling in front of these fishermen who lived together, he was only in his twenties, and he was young and vigorous, but he was always stupid with a smiling face.

"Grandpa Zhang, thank you. ”

Zhao Qian felt bitter in his heart, but he still thanked the old man out of politeness.

"Thank you, you stupid boy. ”

The old man glanced at Zhao Qian with great distress, and he patted the latter on the shoulder.

"Your kid is almost also grandpa grew up in the eyes of a child, and grandpa knows what has happened in your family over the years, people, this life has passed as soon as you open your eyes and close your eyes, some things are out of sight, as long as people can cook for you, it is enough to serve your old mother, don't think about anything else. ”

"Who's to say it isn't?"

Zhao Qian smiled bitterly, a basket of carp was sold for a few more dollars of silver than he estimated, this young fisherman who has lived on Jiangshui since he was a child counted the two or three taels of silver over and over again, and was satisfied after making sure that there was no less, these money can be enough for two people in the family to live for several days, as for him, he will go home and hand over the silver to his mother-in-law and then return to Jiangshui to continue fishing, so repeatedly, a lifetime will pass.

It's just that when he noticed that the young man behind him was still following, Zhao Qian gritted his teeth and took out five coins from the two taels and five coins of silver.

"Little brother, don't follow me anymore, you take this money, it's enough for a day or two of food, and I can only help you so much, after all, you should also know my situation." ”

He handed over the five coins, but was coldly pushed back by the young man.

"Five dollars, I don't want it. ”

"Isn't that too much? I can only tell so much. Zhao Qian frowned, he didn't seem to expect that the young man who was rescued by himself would be so inch-inch.

"I don't want your money. ”

The young man shook his head.

"I seem to remember that someone once said to me, he said that there are many people in this world, one kind of people make money and take it into their arms without looking at it, and one kind of people who make money to count carefully, usually the former kind of people can't be paid, their silver will be spent quickly, and the latter kind of people can have deep friendships, because they know how difficult it is to make money, and they will not spend money indiscriminately. ”

"You have a lot of friends, I will tell you anything, in fact, I don't think the five coins of silver for you are not a waste of money, save people to the end, send the Buddha to the west, I can't let you starve to death. ”

"I won't starve to death, I won't ask for your money, you invite me to eat a bowl of noodles, and I'll do one thing for you. ”

"What can you do?"

Zhao Qian couldn't help but be interested by the young man in front of him.

"I don't know what I can do. ”

The young man shook his head.

"I'm not very good at doing complicated things, just simple things, like, I can help you kill someone. ”

Zhao Qian stood stunned on the spot.

He muttered.

"You can eat noodles, you don't need to kill people, this kind of thing really has never happened in our town. ”

Zhao Qian really took the young man to eat a bowl of noodles, and after eating the noodles, he was leaving, and asked the young man where he was going, but the young man still shook his head.

"I'm not going anywhere, I'm just waiting for you here, because I know you'll need me sooner or later, and this bowl of noodles can't eat you for nothing. ”

Zhao Qian was speechless, and said in his heart, isn't this young man having a brain problem, could it be that he saved a neuropath?

Although he Zhao Qian is just a fisherman, he doesn't have the extra mind to entangle with a neurotic.

"Okay, if you want to wait here, then let it be, I'll go back. ”

Zhao Qian went back with the fish basket on his back, and along the way, he didn't forget to buy some delicious food for his old mother and lame mother-in-law who were lying on the hospital bed.

His family lives in the most remote adobe house in the town, two years ago his short-lived old father leaned on his own big pear tree and fell asleep peacefully, fell asleep and never woke up, he left him a mess and a dozen taels of silver, he used this silver to marry a daughter-in-law, a beautiful, but unfortunately a daughter-in-law with a leg problem, this is in Zhao Qian's eyes are extremely satisfying things, all say that men want face, this face is nothing more than marrying a beautiful daughter-in-law, only later happened to make Zhao Qian understand that to marry a daughter-in-law and marry a similar line, too beautiful to attract people's attention, this is really true, at least he knew that every time he was not at home, there were a lot of ruffians and hooligans in the family to harass, and his daughter-in-law was also the daughter of a hard-working family, and when he was married, he only took a fancy to his Zhao family's ten taels of silver as a dowry, but fortunately, his mother-in-law has always adhered to women's morals, and the year before was fine, and she married and stayed at home, but in the following year, she somehow began to dress up and go out frequently.

It is said that Mrs. Chaste is afraid of ruffians, even if she doesn't understand it, Zhao Qian also knows that her flowery mother-in-law is fascinated by a certain man.

This kind of thing for women, the first time there is a second time, and after the first discovery, the mother-in-law promised to change, where is the idea of changing in the future?

Zhao Qian knew that he was wearing a big hat on his head, but there is a way that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, not to mention that the mother-in-law in addition to stealing people, she always takes care of her old mother, and she can't have both fish and bear's paws, so she can't take the old mother to go fishing on Jiangshui together, Zhao Qian admitted.

Pushing open the door of the firewood room in the small courtyard, it was neatly cleaned up.

"I'm back. ”

Zhao Qian said lightly, at this time, the door was wide open, and his mother-in-law was dressing up in front of a bronze mirror inherited from her ancestors.

"Why did you go for so long to come back this time?

In the house, the woman who had changed from a woman two years ago to a young woman said while making powder, Zhao Qian seemed to have expected her to say such a sentence, put down the fish basket, took out the silver in her arms and put it on the table.

"No, there is no harvest this time, only sold more than two taels of silver, barely able to live with your mother for half a month, I will go out as soon as I see my mother." ”

Pushing open the inner door, the old mother described the withered tree as still sick in bed.

He didn't notice the eyes of his mother-in-law outside the door who hated iron when she saw that there were only more than two taels of silver.

The mother and son didn't say a few words, because his old mother had really reached the point where he could speak, and Zhao Qian only wanted to enjoy more happiness when his old mother was still alive.

"You can do whatever your mother likes to eat, and I don't think she will live long. ”

"It's very simple, it's only two taels of silver, where do you get the confidence to eat whatever you want?"

"It's just that this time it's only two taels of silver, which time did you go out in the past and not a dozen taels of silver? It's all handed over to you, my mother is so old, and she is sick like this, how much can she spend? You can't take out a little bit of the money you used to have. ”

Zhao Qian couldn't help frowning, he didn't like to quarrel, but it didn't mean that he didn't have the minimum dignity of a man.

"No money. ”

The mother-in-law glanced at Zhao Qian lightly.

"Do you think it's a lot of more than a dozen taels of silver? Go outside and see, which man is as useless as you? Go out for more than ten days before you have more than two taels of silver. ”

"Hello man outside, go look for it, what are you still doing here? ”

"Just look for it, I really think I can't find a man, do you?"

"Leave me the money, you fucking go out and find a wild man, don't try to use my money. ”

"Cut, who is rare, don't use it. ”

More than two taels of broken silver were thrown directly to the ground by the mother-in-law, and the flowers and branches she dressed up limped out, at this time it was already dark, and there was no one in the most remote part of the town.

Zhao Qian hated to dismantle this woman who was cuckolding him more and more grandiosely, but he couldn't, he didn't dare to kill, and because there was an old mother who was sick in bed at home.

"Bear with it if you can. ”

He often remembered his old mother's words, and this night, Zhao Qian finally swallowed a breath.

The second day, the mother-in-law was satisfied to push open the courtyard door and walked in, Zhao Qian didn't sleep all night, he drank a lot of wine, he was waiting, waiting for his mother-in-law to come back and have a good talk.

"Isn't it cool? ”

Zhao Qian asked her mother-in-law like this, but was interrupted by her mother-in-law with a faint sentence.

"Are you sick?"

"Yes, Lao Tzu is sick, you cheap woman. ”

Zhao Qian, who was drunk, picked up his mother-in-law and threw her on the bed.

"Lao Tzu wants to see how many fucking wild men you have been fucked by this slut today. ”

"Smack. ”

With a crisp slap, Zhao Qian's right face turned red.

"You dare to hit me?"

"The old lady is beating you useless thing. ”

"I'll kill you. ”

"Come on, come on, do you dare? You useless waste, don't you want to know who my wild man is? The old lady will tell you now, the old lady's wild man is the king of the town, do you dare to kill me. If you kill me, neither you nor your mother will survive. ”

"Put your mother's bullshit, Wang Daguan will take a fancy to you, a lame mother-in-law?"

"What's wrong with the old lady's lameness? The old lady is good at kung fu, the old lady can make the officials comfortable, can you? Zhao Qian, do you know that I have never been happier than I have been so happy in the past two years since I married you, do you dare to kill me? If you don't dare, just get out of the way. ”

Zhao Qian, who was silent, was kicked to the ground by her mother-in-law.

The inner door opened, and the old mother struggled to fall out of bed and crawl out again.

"No, don't, Qian'er. ”

"I know, mother, I won't kill anyone. ”

Zhao Qian's heart was dripping blood, but he still forced a smile, and he looked at the lame woman who was satisfied on the bed.

"When I send my mother to the earth for peace, you will go back wherever you came. ”

"Whatever you want, the old lady doesn't care. ”

The night passed uneventually.

Zhao Qian slept until three poles in the morning before getting up, carrying a fish basket on his back.

"Mother, I'll trouble you to take care of it. ”

"Don't worry, it's you who I don't like, not your mother. ”

"That's good. ”

Zhao Qian went out, he needed to go through the town first, and when he got to the place where he ate noodles yesterday, he didn't see the young man who said he would wait there yesterday.

It seems that it is just talking.

Zhao Qian smiled bitterly, he arrived at the dock, this was the time when the fishing boat went out, it was very lively, he Zhao Qian was really not very noticeable in the crowd, but today he did attract the attention of many people, and many people looked at this young fisherman who was only in his twenties with great interest.

Zhao Qian really didn't like to be watched like this, he lowered his head and walked quickly through the crowd, but he searched the dock but still couldn't find the fishing boat he inherited from his old father.

"What's going on? Grandpa Zhang, where's my boat. ”

Zhao Qian asked this group of old men who got along with each other day and night and were the only ones who had a good relationship, but the old man who was extremely concerned about Zhao Qian yesterday avoided him like a plague god today, and took Zhao Qian to the cabin of his fishing boat, and the old man said cautiously.

"You offended the Wang officials? Your boat was sunk early in the morning and reached the bottom of the river, and the people of the Wang family said that no one was allowed to rent a boat for you, so everyone looked at you like this and ...... it."

The old man stopped talking.

"And what?"

"And the whole town knows about your mother-in-law and Wang Daguan's involvement, but you are still in the dark, because no one wants to offend Wang Daguan. ”

"I'm not offended, I haven't even seen the face of this big official. Zhao Qian was angry in his heart, but he still forcibly suppressed it.

"If you want, I can take you to meet the official Wang you want to meet. ”

At this moment, an expressionless young man suddenly appeared on the deck outside the cabin, with a cinnabar mole on his forehead, his left arm tightly bandaged, and only one right arm could move.

"No need, little brother, thank you, it's my own business. ”

Zhao Qian left angrily, did not forget to carry his fish basket, when he got home, only the old mother hid her face on the bed and cried, Zhao Qian did not know what happened, only to his room to understand, at this time there are many fragments of his mother-in-law's clothes on the ground, sometimes there are belly pockets and pants mixed in, and the mother-in-law's clothes on the bed are half-naked and sweet and sleepy.

Zhao Qian gently put down the fish basket behind him.

With his fists clenched, his muscles were exposed, and then he saw that there were already many neighbors outside the small courtyard at this time, thinking that the blatant things that happened during the day not long ago had made the neighbors rush over to see the excitement, he Zhao Qian really didn't have the face to turn around and close the courtyard door, and finally just closed the door of the hall.

"Adulteress. ”

The young fisherman pulled the sleeping woman out of bed and threw her to the ground.

The sleepy-eyed woman was terrified.

"You...... How did you get back. ”

"How?"

In addition to the anger, Zhao Qian had completely calmed down, and his composure was terrifying, he sneered.

"I didn't expect me to come back at this time? Or did I not communicate with your adulterer in advance? I only stole someone last night, and I am so impatient today? You don't treat me Zhao Qian as your man, but you don't even give me the least dignity, you cheap woman, I can't bear it today. ”

"What do you want to do?"

The woman was terrified.

"You like to attract bees and butterflies, I'll let you have a good time today. ”

After about twenty or thirty breaths, the door of the hall opened, and a naked woman was tied up by a young fisherman and thrown into the street.

"You like to let others see it, and I'll let you be seen enough today. ”